The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 29, 1848. THERE is, unhappily, little doubt remaining that we have before us the prospect of another winter of scarcity in Ireland. Regardless of their past sufferings from the failure of the potato crop, the peasantry and farmers of Ireland have this year once. _more rested their chief, and, to a great ex tent, their sole dependence upon this precarious root; and the destruction of a great portion of it, though not, perhaps. so much as is represented by interested or thoughtless alarmists, is now almost a matter of certainty. The question, therefore, what is to he done in such an emergency, must at once urgently press upon the attention and seriously increase the perplexities of her Majesty's govern ment. Ireland, in fact, seems destined to remain one of the great social difficulties which British statesmanship has to encounter; and she seems bent herself upon offering every possible impedi ment to its solution. A more anomalous spectacle cannot possibly . -present itself than the position of this most un happy people. But a few days ago they . were in arms to wrest a speculative boon from this empire, which had so lately extended towards them a be nificenee unparalleled in the world's history. With our own money they bought the weapons which were •to be levelled against our throats. The Saxon's charity was converted into the means of shedding the Saxon's blood. And now we have the same people before us in the attitude of sup pliants, whil3t their curses hurled against us are still ringing in our ears. We shall be called upon to feed starving thousands, the main cause of whose starvation has been that they have pre ferred the pike and the musket to the spade; • 'and turbulenc:! and bloodshed to honest industry. And strange though it may appear, we shall not refuse to answer to the call.. We may not be so profuse as in previous times. We may be more discriminating in the amount and mode of dis tribution of our alms. But we shall pay never theless. John Bull is a long suffering animal, and seems never tired of forgetting the offences of his Irish brother. But there must be one condition observed on the present occasion. We must have it clearly understood that we are preserving the lives of a people, who are at length disposed to respect the laws ; that instead of providing the means of ex istence for that people, we are not furnishing arms for rebels. We have a fair claim to insist upon this condition, and upon no other terms will the British nation he content to draw again upon their resources for Irish aid. What is the state of feel inn amongst the population of a great portion of Ireland—that poetion most certain to be first in a position to demand our bounty—at the present moment ? It is undeniably hostile—not only to the very name of England, but to every thing re sembling social order. Juries in Ireland cannot be found to convict, in cases of the most unde niable, and even of admitted crime; and life and - Property are scarcely so secure in some districts as amongst the most barbarous tribes of the aborigines in our colonies. Open rebellion has been scotched only to give place to assassination and midnight outrage; and respect for the law—nay, even ordi nary abhorrence for the crime of murder itself—is openly scouted. Upon this point the following evidence of an able correspondent of the London Times, who writes from Thurles, is most staiting "A general impression prevailed some time ago that the special commissions had effectually stopped that sys tem of assassination to which so many of the landlords in 'this part of Ireland fell victims. it was believed that Irish Thuggee had been suppressed, and that the nr , j,sty of the law had been entirely vindicated. From the infor mation I have I feel satisfied that these conclusions will soon be found erroneous, and that the recent lull has been merely an interregnum in the reign uf terror and blood. J find that threatening letters are still as common as ever, and that a deliberate system of intimidation is carried on to an extent and with a degree of success which are per fectly astounding. There is scarcely a man in this coun try whose life is really valuable who does not hold it from _hour to hour upon a tenure the u.,certainties of which would puzzle the most skilful actuary. No gentleman bent on the improvement of his estate or people, no in dustrious farmer seeking to overcome prejudice and igno rance in the cultivation of the soil, no mapistrate firm in the discharge of his public duties, is safe from the violent caprice of a revengeful and yet cowardly peasantry. Recent events have revived all - the. horrid- desire to uipa out by murder fancied wrongs, and, unless strong repres sive measures are adopted. you may soon- expect to hear of terrible deeds done in this country." _ The awful social condition of such a people is still more forcibly depicted in the following para graph from the same writer : " . I have been horrified to find that there are scores of imen in this district alone whose active participation in murders is quite well known, though no means exist of bringing them to justice. Witnesses, jurymen, magis tratrates, are all entranced by this frightful system of intimidation which reigns here, and, although the public have a right to complain if any fears for their personal safety induce men to forego or neglect the discharge of their duties, it should still be remembered that the state has reciprocal obligations, and that while the subject is called on to act a conscientious part in support of the law, he is entitled to claim protection in return." There is but one conclusion which we can draw from the evidence of such a state of things, com bined with our recent experience of the impossi bility of attaining the ends of justice even in the Irish metropolis itself. A people of whose social condition the above is an accurate description is not fitted for the enjoyment of those forms of law, with which the Constitution has hedged round the rights and the life and property of the subject. Trial by ury for political and criminal offences must be suspended in Ireland, or materially modified ; and the executive arm must be strengthened. We must no longer present to the world continual scanda lous mockeries of an institution which, valuable as it is in a civilized country, is completely out of place in one whose population obviously regards perjury as venial, when used to screen crime, and in which known murderers walk about unmolested in the open day. If we wanted further evidence of the necessity of this step, we submit that it is to be found in the following letter, recently addressed to a provincial paper, by one of the pattern instructors of this lawless people My dear Sir,—As there appeared in the last fr copies of your journal statements of certain occurre in this locality with which my name was connect statements, though generally true; greatly exaggerate . you will please allow me to put you and the readers of your journal in the possession of the true . state of those occurrences. " On the 2nd instant. there did appear in this parish persons seemingly connected with the late uktOrtunate insurrection : but they were persons of the mildest, most gentlemanly, and unobtrusive demeanour, and seemed to take refuge in those mountains to evade the vengeance of the law, and not for any other purpose; and repeatedly and fervently did I pray with many others that God may deliver those martyrs of a designing and despotic Go vernment from the hands of their enemies, and the enemies of their country. " Separated from these persons there appeared in another part of the parish a person, I believe, not at all an outlaw, disposed to say and do very foolish things ; but the people took my advice, and left him immediately, though many of them told me they might as well die in war as in starvation in the coniing winter. However, with very little difficulty, I prevented those half-starved people from any collision with a pampered military in pursuit of those insurgents, and thus saved my poor people from bloodshed and further notoriety. May God protect them from the spies and detectives with whom this locality is now infected ! "I remain, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours, ". J. MOLON, Parish Priest. " Kilcomwon, August 11." "Unfortunate insurrection!" mild, most gentle manly and unobtrusive" people, taking refuge in the mountains only "to evade the vengeance of the law !" In a land where the crimes of rebels are thus gingerly spoken of, and their punishment regarded, as a thing, to evade whichit is amiable -•arld pious to assist the criminal, what prospect can there be of truth in the decision of a jury ? To -expect it is to be ridiculous. ST. SWITHIN A/sFI - ) THE WATER COMMITTEE. We will not go the length of asserting that this worthy Saint has been specially retained during the past two months, for the purpose of assisting Mr. Hawkesley and . Captain Francis in showing the large capabilities of Rivington as a water shed ; but his efforts in favour of the scheme have been certainly as well worthy of remu neration as those of any half dozen of the scientific per sonages whose evidence is before the public. Even smuts, however, are fallible beings ; and, in his zeal, Swithin has proved boo much, by upsetting one of the pet theories of his employers. Welave been told by them, over and over again, that the supply of water under Li verpool is obtained altogether from the rainfall in the im mediate district, percolating through the red sandstone into the strata from whence it is pumped up for use ; and that, as the area of the district becomes built over, such supply will be decreased in quantity. Ad m it t hi s t h eory, and the deduction is an obvious one,—that the greater the rainfall, the more abundant should be the yi e ld o f our wells. During all this periodi-then, that the saint has been wringing his wet blanket over our heads, the Har iagtOn, and Bootle lodges should have been full eaough to give us a daily supply—as mud, in fact; as their en gines could pump ; and yet, from every pare of the town, we are overwhelmed with complaints of want of water. Either, therefore, the idea of Liverpool being built upon a kind of natural filter must be scouted as sheer humbug, or there is water in our wells at this moment, and the committee won't let us have it. One or other of the alternatives is inevitable ; and as the saint's exertions are productive of no good, but rather of touch unpbasantness here, we should be obliged to him to confine his further favours to Rivington, whet .!they are more highly valued. In sober earnestness, we do submit. that the public have some right to complain of the present managemrtit of their water supply by the officers of the health committee. We have been very obstinate, no doubt, in not seeing at once all the advantages of the Pike prej:wt, but now that it is carried against us, don't continue to punish us for our past stupidity ! Let us at least have as much as our wells will yield, whether it percolates from the surface or is supplied by subterranean rivers. If this is not done, the inhabitants of Liverpool must themselvt s make a con tract with Saint Swithin, and collect his favours for their cr,vn u>e. There is scarcely a street or a court in the town, which a few yards of spouting, a good cask or stone cistern, arid a tap would not render the occupants independent both of the wells and the health committee for the greater part of the water they use. If rainwater it is upon which we are hencefirth to be dependent, why, in the name of common sense, go twenty or thirty miles to catch and impound it, when we can have the same element in abun dance train our own house-tops? Asa matter of domestic economy, as well as on sanatory grounds, our population ought at once to be encouraged to supply their houses with rainwater cisterns, the trifling cost of which an ave rage family would save in a twelvemonth i❑ their decrcased consumption of the article of soap alone. Tut POPE, HER. MAJESTY'S LORD LIEUTENANT IN IRELAND. The instrumentality, by which the Whig government proposes in future to govern Ireland, has at length oozed out, and stands plainly confessed in the debate on the Diplomatic. Relations with Rome Bill, on Thursday night. Of course, like all other portions of the poiiry of the party, it is contempti'le, degrading to the sovereign, and insulting to the Irish people themselves. His Holiness the Pope of Rome is to become a cat's paw of the British ministry and his spiritual powers are to be wielded, at the dictation of our envoy at his court, to repress Illv tur bulence of the M'Hales and other reverend Irish fire brands. To meet at once the objections urged by the constitutional party in the House againA any recognition of the spiritual authority of the Pope, and the fears enter tained by the Roman Catholics of Ireland that the bill-is levelled at the spiritual authority of the Irish bishops and priesthood, it was proposed by M.. Chas. Pearson, that the diplomatic intercourse proposed to be held with the Court of Rome, should be " touching and concerning in t•rnational, civil, commercial, and political relations." To this restriction, however, the Solicitor-General offered a decided objection. "Questions" he said "of a mixed character might arise though in the result they were of a temporal nature, and in such no interference could take plaCe. 5up7. , 0, , e the Pope intro (limed any regulation s; to the Roman Catliolic3 of Canada, this qualification would prevent any interf,rence. At present the Pope might divide this country into bishoprics and arch b;shoprics, and if the amendment were agreed to he might do so still ; but if we had rree diplomatic relations with him, the liri tish Government might interfere to preven, such a division." And Lord Palmerston directly advocates the propriety of our treating with the Pope, for the regulating of the internal affairs of this kingdom, so far as tn.. y are con nected with religious matters. The noble lord, in reply to some remarks of Sir Robert Inglis, " Begged to ask a question of his hon. friend, who had often applied to him to make representations to the Government of Sardinia in favour of the Protestants of the Vaudois, and who had also urged him to nse his influence with the Government of Switzerland on the subject of certain relations which interfered with some religious persons in the cantons of Switzerland. Hear.) Now would his hon. friend call that an interference either in `political, commercial, civil, or international' affairs? Such questions would give rise to very disagreeable refinements, and it was not desirable to preclude the Gorernmeot of this ((noir?, from making similar representations, if it were thought Gesirable, to the Court of Itome." There is no reservation here. The authority of the Pope within these realms is distinctly recognised, in direct subversion of the principles of the British constitution, and of an express clause in her Majosty's coronation oath ; and we are to stoop to negocinte with him—" to urge him to use his influence (.9- to protect the civil liberties of English and Irish Protestants from being "interfered with" by the aggressions of Romanism Within this realm. A truly degrading and Whiggish spectacle it will be to see the Protestant government and people of this great empire thus prostrating themselves at the footstool of the anti christ, suing, in forma pauperis, for liberty to worship God according to their own consciences ! Ribcipool Itaiilari. AN INTERESTING ENQUIRY. We beg to suggest that a prize should be offered by the Royal Agricultural Society for the discovery of any year in which, according to the summer and autumnal prognos tications of the Mark Lane Express, and other organs of the Corn Jews, at least half the grain crops throughout the country ought not to have been blighted, mildewed, defi cient in the yield, unsound, or affected by comae similar calamity, so as to justify an advance in the price of stocks on hand. The necessary reference to the old files—of papers we mean—would be very interesting. Another prize might be offered for the discovery of any year in which the American cotion.crop ought not, according to Brother Jonathan, to have turned out either a very short crop, or .a total failure, and in 'which, according ,to, the opinions of consumers, it ought not to have been the most abundant on record, the object of the enquiry being to find out the mean of truth in the two opposing authorities. JUMPING TOO HASTILY TO A CONCLUSION CURE FOR THE POTATOE ROT. Amongst the thousand and one receipts for the cure of the potatoe disease, a Glasgow contemporary says, " Let the stalks be pulled up—cutting does not answer the pur pose—care being taken that the roots be disturbed as little as possible. The earth should then be trodden down firmly. The potatoes should be taken up about the end of September, and kept as informer years 1" Suppose, however, they won't keep—what is to done with them then ? a i On Monday week, 105 barrels of sawdust were shipped from this port for Malaga, the value of this article for packing grapes being sufficient to secure outward freight. On Tuesday, Mr. Edward Langsdale was elected over seer of the poor for Everton, in the place of the late Mr. John Kilshaw. The Grand Jury on Wednesday returned a true bill againSt Peter Fogg, of Preston, for manslaughter, arising out of the late steam boiler explosion. The trial has been postponed until next assizes. The propriety of converting the house at the top of Erskine-street (lately occupied by Mr. Salisbury) into a fever ward, is to be re-considered by the West Derby Guardians. THE NEW LANDING STAGE. — The workmen are now busily engaged in completing the ways for passengers, carts, carriages and horses. The footways for foot pas sengers will be on the outer edges of the bridges, and horses, &c.., will have to pass up and down the centre, so that there may be no danger of accidents. WOODSIDE FERRY.—The Commissioners have effected a reduction of the expenditure to the extent of £2200 a year, which they are enabled to do consistently wills the efficient working of the ferry, exclusive of a reduction of £5OO, which the committee had been able to effect since -st. They also propose to give additional facilities 'orking classes for crossing the river by running ;:s every morning from five to half-past five o'clock. _duction has been made by reducing the wages of the periois in their employ. COMPENSATION.—A sheriff's jury met at the Clarendon rooms, on Thursday, for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of damages due to Henry Ilawarden Fazazerley, 11,q., in consideration of the injury certain property at Walton would receive from the East Lancashire raitway passing through it. The owner's claim was for £1,731 103. 6d. The comnauy had offered nearly £7OO, but as this was rejected, they. stood for £561 7s. 6d. The jury awarded £BOO, the costs to be defrayed by the company. MONTHLY REPORT OF BATHS AND WASH -HOUSES, PAUL-STREET, ENDING AUGUST 24TH, 1848.—Number of baths—male , 5372, females 442, total 5814. Number of school children bathed, gratis—Corporation School, North, 916 ; Ragged School, Naylor-street, 1056 ; total, 1972 ;—teachers, 25 ; inspectors of nuisances, 21 ; gross total, 7832. Number of tubs used,. 3303; dozens of clothes .washed and dried, 6606. Receipts for baths, £5B 153. 7d. ; receipts for washing, £l3 153. 3d.; total receipts, £32 103. 10d.—The above report is more than usually gratifying, as exhibiting the increasing benefits conferred by these institutions on the middle and poorer classes of the inhabitants. TheSe advantages denote the wisdom of the Baths Committee in extending the benefits to every district of the town, especially when the erections are now proved to be self-supporting. Mr. Parker, and one or two other gentlemen, have worked hard to obtain these almost gratuities for the poor, who will long thank them for ti.eir disinterested efforts. -.- THE PURSUIT OF Da. REYNOLDS.—" WHAT'S IN A NAME c"—lt appears Oat Mr. Reynolds, or Dr. Rey nolds, has for some years been an inlfabitant of Mon mouthshire. but chiefly residing at Abergavenny ; and the knowledge of this faci, accoenpanied as it was by an inti mation from those "who were in the secret," to Blossett, the superintendent of police at Ross, that a person of the name of Reynolds had passed through Ross on his way to South Wales, induced that officer to follow the trail of the delinquent: This, with all the dexterity and tact of an American Indian, was fully carried out. Blossett went to Monmouth on Wednesday morning, and ascertained, beyond a doubt, that a bland and intelligent gentleman, named Reynolds, had been at the White Swan Hotel so journing for a short period, and that he had represented himself as a gentleman in the ironmongery or hardware line. Unfortunately for the policeman, he had that morn ing started. However, on further inquiry, he deemed his prospects not in any ways " blighted," as the gentleman had gone in the direction of Abergavenny. All was now timught right—the assistance of one of the Monmouth police was enlisted, and Blussett, with his companion, went post-haste to Ragland, where he again heard of the mysterious Mr. Reynolds, who had, it appared, only a short time previous, departed from thence to Usk. No time was lost in the pursuit, and eventually the criminal was overtaken; but thelkstonishment of the pursuers may be readily conceived upon their ascertaining Cley had certainly caught a Mr. Reynolds, but not the dr. Rey nolds, as the gentleman in whose pursuit so much energy had been evinced was not in any way connected with the sympathisers of rebellion in Ireland, but was the repre sentative of the city of Gloucester, The disappointment 0' the indefatigable Blossett may In wily imagined,— lii cord Journal. TUB; LIVERPOOL STAINIIARD. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, SEACOMBE.—In conseqrence of the difficulty of completing the above place of worship, its promoters have decided upon holding a bazaar, on the 6th, 7th, and Bth of September, on the bowling-green, at Mr. Parry's Hotel, Seacombe. A considerable debt remains to be liquidated, and several additions and deco rations are required to complete the building, in accord ance with the original design of the architect; the cfrwt now made will, no doubt, receive a liberal response on the part of all true friends to the church. Several of the most influential lathes connected with the district, have come forward to aid the object; and amongst the early patronesses are Lady Tobin, Mrs. Byrth, Mrs. H. Little . dale, Mrs. Winch, &c., &c. - LECTURES ON PHYSIOLOGY.—Dr. Pettigrew, of Lon don, delivered the first of a course of six lectures at the Collegiate Institution on this subject, on Friday evening, which was attended by many of our medical townsmen. Dr. Pettigrew is a pleasing speaker, adorning his subject with the graces of language, and treating it in so popuier a style as to make it understood and admired by persons of the hunibleet capacity. On Friday evening the lecturer treated of the brain, and will con'i'tue that branch of the subject this evening. He has also promised to exhibit the effects of chloroform on animals this evening. We cannot doubt but that this course of lectures will be suc e soul, and we may add that the present series is the last D:. Pet l igrew t ter deliver in our town. 'FnE MAILS TO DUBLIN.—A new arrangement for the transmission of the mails from Dublin to London, via Liverpool. will come into operation from and after the Bth of September next. Tice mail packet from Liverpool will then leave Kingstown pier at 4 30 p.m., instead of at 6 30, as at present. The object of that arrangement is to ensure the arrival of the mail from Dublin at Liverpool at such an hour in the morning as to permit it to be for warded from the latter .town to London by the 6 a.m. express train. It is said that with a view to. this, as well as other changes, more po wer f u l b oa t s w ill he put on the line to Liverpool. All the correspondence between Ire land and those places to which Liverpool offers the speedi est communication will g:o by this route, all that for Lendon direct and the places on that line will go rid Holyhead. Tire MONOMANIAC AT THE ASSIZE COURT.—On Tuesday morning, immediately on Mr. Justice Cresswell entering the Crown Court, the venerable old lady who has now for so many years gone "the circuit " with their lordships, and who had, some minutes before the judge arrived, placed herself in a conspicu ins part of the court, arose, and in a determined tone, demanded the learned judge to restore to her her property. His lordship mil -1 ingiy replied, that he came there to try prisoners, and not to listen to her then. He would listen to her application at the proper time. " Yes, but," said the old body, " you are sworn to do your duty, and I demand that you do it now, and give me my property." The police desired her to leave the court; and, after some persuasion, she was prevailed upon to retire, although not before promising his lordship that. she would pay him another visit. POLICE -COURT, YESTERDAY.—The cases brought up yesterday possessed little interest., being chiefly the ordi nary disorderly cases and petty thefts. The only one wor thy of notice was a case brought on by Kehoe and Bates, of the detective police, in which two men were charged with being found in posseSsion of a small bale of drapery goods, under suspicious circumstances. The prisoners, who were apparently labouring men, were stopped in Marybone, along which street they were proceeding in a car with the goods in question, which the driver said he had brought from a hut in a brick-field in Kirkdale. On searching the hut in question, the officers found part of she wrappering of another bale. which tallied in material with that of the bale found. They had ascertained that several parcels of goods had been carried away in a loose state, by women and others 5 n Sunday morning. The men stated in defence that they had been employed by a roan named Derrick (who is known to the police); and they were remanded to allow of the remainder of the goods being traced, as it is said that four bales altogether are missing. DESTRUCTION OF THE EMIGRANT SHIP " OCEAN MONARCH" BY FIRE, AND LOSS OF NEARLY TWO HUNDRED LIVES. An awful catastrophe occurred to an emigrant ship hound from this port to New York, on Thursday last, shortly after she had left the Mersey. The Ocean Monarch had onboard 28 first and second-class cabin pa , sengers, 322 steerasze passengers, and .46 men con stituting the crew, including officers. She was one of the Boston liners, and belonged to Messrs. Enoch, Train, and Co., of Boston. She was chiefly laden with iron, and was commanded by .Captain Murdoch, a gentleman of unquestionable experience and nautical skill. She started at daylieht in the morning, in tow of a steam tug, and made good progress. The steamer left her to work her own way about eight o'clock, and with a fresh breeze she proceeded to sea. The wind being in a direction that required tacking, the order to " 'bout ship." as she reared the land, about six miles on this side of Great Ofmshead, was given ; and when her head was• put to seaward, the alarm of fire immediately followed. Smoke was seen to i,7sue from a ventilator, near the after part of the vessel. The captain, who was on deck, sent some of the crew below to ascertain the cause, and at first con cluded that some of the steerage passengers had been smoking, -but one of the crew observed that some one must have lighted a fire in the ventilator (which passed through the captain"s private cabin), mistaking it for a chimney. This, however, is quite uncertain. Before the origin of the fire could be ascertained, the fire manifested itself. The ft,mes proceeded from the storeroom, and, from the eombustible nature of the materials, extended with an extraordinary and frightful rapieiy, owing in some measure to the disordered state of the steerage deck, for it generally takes a day after sailing before things Can be put in order. • The appearance of the flames caused the utmost con fu•ion ; the passengers rushed to and fro against each other, and impeded the progress of persons getting on deck. Children were thrust aside, and women struggled aea'nst men in the general effort for self-preservation. In the impulse of the moment, those who had money attempted to save it, and the struggle was to get on deck with trunks, boxes, clothes, &c. Many were successful, and several even returned and descended for the purpose of saving children or getting at their little properties. But in their endeavour a great number were smothered, for a dense smoke soon filled every place below deck. The captain, perceiving the imminent danger in which the lives of all were placed, gave orders to put the vessel hetbre the wind and run her on shore; but the fi:v having now burst upon deck, in tongues of' flame, these orders could not he complied with. The anchor was then let go, to bring the ship to the wind, and prevent the flames ex tending forwards. In letting go the anchors, many per sons who had got about the cable, or amongst the head gearing, or cordage, were carried overboard, and perished, no one being enabled to rescue them. The survivors describe the scene at this moment as truly appalling. Men, women, and children were run ning about wildly, screaming and crying ; a crowd got around the captain and mate, beseeching them to save them, or reproaching them for what had taken place. Orders were either not heard, or disobeyed, and the second mate and some of the crew seeing ruin inevitable, proceeded to get out the boats, without the captain's order and against his wishes. The second mate succeeded, and got into a boat; the first mate, seeing the second boat in danger of being swamped, jumped into her and pushed off, but then discovered that they had no oars. The .waves were running high, arid the wind blowing fresh, and they were driven out. to sea. Happily they were picked up by the Prince of Wales, and Captain Denham, with a prompt humanity, steered direct for the Ocean Monarch. After the boats left, the Captain remained on the wreck. There were several other boats on board, but they were now unavailable, being enveloped in flames. All his crew had now left. him, with the exception of the carpenter and three others; and an instant effort was necessary to pre serve their lives. A spar was launched, and some boards, and lowering themselves down they clung to these. The captain was its this perilous state in the water for about twenty minutes, when he was picked up by the yacht " Ocean Queen." In the meantime all was terror or despair on board the ill-fated vessel. While the greater part of the ship was a perfect volcano, the small quantity of gunpowder below exploded, and the masts, one after another, crashed, and fell overboard'. This served to increase the flames, and the remainder of the passengers took refuge at the head of the ship. The heat at the time was most intense; but the poor creatures watched with an anxiety pe r f ec tly fear ful the approach of a sail. It was the Queen of the Ocean, Mr. Thos. Littledale's yacht. There were on bolrd, in addition to the crew, Mr. Littledale himself, Mr. Aspinal Tobin, Mr. Anfrere, of Windermere, Sir Thomas Hes keth, (the high sEeriff.) and his chaplgin. When about three miles distant, the y saw the Ocean Monarch with all sails set. In a moment, to their surprise, she seemed to change her course, and appeared as if about to return to Liverpool. The cause of this movement soon became apparent. Smoke was seen to issue from the vessel, and the fire soon after became visible. They bore down upon her, and as they approached her, the flames showed them selves several feet above the deck. The cries of digress reached them at a considerable distance, and the poor wretches on the wreck swarmed like bees about the head of the vessel. The Ocean Queen is a fine stout yacht, and was pro vided with a capacious boat. Mr. Littledale and Mr. Tobin directed all their hands to lower the boat, and pull off to the rescue, they themselves managing the yacht in 'the meantime. The sea was too rough for her to attempt boarding the burning ship. The men In' the 'boot-did their work nobly: They took from the wreck, or near her floating about, thirty-two persons, amongst whom was Capt. Murdoch—nearly exhausted. The yacht was nearly an hour at the wreck before any other assistance arrived. The Affonso, Brazilian steam-frigate, out on a trial trip, and having on hoard the Prince de Joinville, the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, the Brazilian Minister, Admiral Grenfell, and others of distinction, afterwards went up to the assistaece of the unfortunates. She was followed by the New World, another emigrant vessel, and the Prince of Wales steamer. Noble exertions followed. All the boats were got quickly into operation ; the first mate of the Ocean Monarch exerted himself successfully, every one seems to have done his duty; and above all, a gallant seaman—whether a British or an American sailor signifies nothing—braved the last danger, and rescued nearly a score of human beings from instant death. His name is Jerome. In order to do this he denuded himself of every stitch of clothes; and his conduct won the ap plause of the Prince de Joinville,—a good judge of a sailors courage. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the last person on board was taken off. and Mr. Littleiale's yacht sailed for the Mersey ; the Affonso followed ; the New World and the Prince of Wales pursued their course, and the Liver steam-tug remained until midnight, when all that remained of the Ocean Monarch sunk, the lurid glare of the fire disappearing in the gurgle of the water. The following are the heads of " narratives" of the disaster from the captain, the surgeon, and others who were on board the ill-fated vessel. The captain, after substantially confirming the preced ing portion of the above account, states that in five minutes after the fire manifested itself the after part of the ship burst into flames. " The fire produced the ut most confusion amongst the passengers—all appeared in fatuation and despair,—yells and screams of the most horrifying description were given —all control over them was lost ; my voice could not be heard nor my orders obeyed. The passengers crowded in numbers to the bow sprit to avoid the heat of the flames; many, in alarm and despair, leaped overboard, and, although spars and loose materials lying about deck were thrown out for them to cling to, a great tnijority of them were drowned." Two boats were got out, but before the lashings of the others could be cut they were enveloped in flames. He also states that, " Seeing our disaster, the Queen of the Ocean yacht, owned by Thomas Littledale, Esq., of Liver pool, with a party of his friends on hoard, bore down to us, lowered her boat, and the crew, with indefatigable ex ertions, were the means of saving the lives of 32. In the meantime, while the yacht was rendering every assistance in her power, the Brazilian war steamer A.ffonso, and the Prince of Wales steamer, bound to Bangor, with the pac ket-ship New World, sent their boats, and were the means of saving many that were clinging to the wreck, and float ing about on the spars; their exertions were great and praiseworthy. The Queen of the Ocean remain(' along side till three o'clock, and when she had done all that it was possible to do, set sail for Liverpool. Mr. and Mrs. Dow, of Glasgow, Mr. Southworth, and Mr. Fellowes, are amongst the cabin passengers whom I know to have been saved." The fire was instantaneous, and in five minutes after it was discovered the after-part of the ship was in flames. He concludes by saying,— " There were. I calculate, about 390 souls altogether on board. but as we had not comp'eted our classifying ar rangements, the exact number 1 cannot positively tell. There were, I think, 31 first and second cabin, and 317 steerage passengers ; the crew consisted of 42 hands, in cluding myself." The mate of the ship has also penned a narrative nearly to the same effect, the greatest praise being given to those on board the Ocean Queen, the Affonso, and the Prince of Wales. He escaped in one of the boats, which he had cut adrift from the wreck. He says,--" That being without oars she drifted, with 13 persons in the boat, four miles to leeward, when a sloop picked them up, and with f our hands, having procured oars, he pulled for the ship, and picked up in the way a passenger who was clinging to a life buoy. The boats of the Affonso were out, the admiral in one of them, using the most heroic efforts to save life. There were also two boats from the New World, and others from other ships. • At this time all the masts were gone, all the deck abaft the forecastle in flames, and fire bursting in holes through the side. There were about 109 of the passengers about the jibboom and the head. They were screaming deliriously, and a number of dead bodies were floating about. We at once attempted to de liver the people from the head, but there was great diffi culty in approaching her. After some time we were enabled to rescue three, one man and two women, from the rigging under the bows; soon after I succeeded in rescuing a wo man and a child, but the child died in the boat almost in stantly. The Prince of Wales could not approach, but sent her boats out." She furnished h'm with more oars and men, and he saved two persons, and might have saved many more but they refused to lower themselves from the bow of the burning vessel. Ile speaks highly of a man named Frederick Jerome, who stripped himself, and by means of a line rescued 15 of the passengers, at great risk of his own life. He then proceeds to say,—" Previous to this the other boats had rescued many, but still several individuals had fallen over while endeavouring, probably, to escape from the heat, or to reach the boats. Many were drowned. The whole of the upper deck was burnt off, and the fire was bursting through the sides down to the water's edge. Jerome having lowered down the last per son, a man, he descended, and we put him on board the Prince of Wales, as well as the remainder of the pas sengers. I went on board the Affonso, where I expe rienced congratulations and, every kindness, The Prince de Joinville, the commander, and the other persons on board, gathered around us. There were 139 persons saved from the wreck on board ; many of these were women and children, partially naked. I saw all busy in clothing and comforting them ; but among the most zealous, kind, and active were Mr. and Mrs. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, who were on board. Mrs. Lynn went over the poor children, seized them in her arms as they came on board, dried them, caressed them, and covered them in the best way she could. Mr. Lynn supplied the fainting with brandy and wine, and the less helpless, with hot soups, mean s, &c. The conduct of both was the subject of general admiration, and the poor poured on them incessant thanks and prayers. The Affonso brought us to the Mersey, and the gentlemen on board desired us, if we wished, to remain on board all night." The mate concludes his narrative without mentioning the praise bestowed on himself. We understand, how ever, that he was highly complimented by the gentlemen on board the Affonso, and that the passengers- pressed upon him gratefully with " God bless you !—you have saved our lives." Mr. Ellis, surgeon of the Ocean Monarch, acquits the captain altogether of the culpability which has been charged against him by a contemporary. In his opinion, the captain and mate did all that it was possible for men to do under the circumstances. The captain, in the first place, took all the necessary steps to check the conflagra tion, and afterwards behaved with the greatest prompti tude;- but all his exertions were rendered fruitless by the confusion produced by the terror which spread among the pasiengers. The captain stuck to the ship until the frag ments of the blazing mainmast were falling about him ; he did not leave until it was an impossibility any longer to stand the heat between the two tires raging fore and Waft. He had great difficulty; in fact, in saving his own life at last. and he certainly saved the lives of others in his in structions to those who hesitated to throw themselves into the water, anti there trust to the spars.—Mr. Ellis was picked up by a pilot-boat out of one of the Ocean Monarch's boats (the mate's) almost swamping at the time by the heavy seas, and was afterwards placed on board a Wexford smack, the Queen. Some of the passengers, when rescued, were perfectly naked. Mr. Ellis, like the majority of the other passen gers, has lost everything by the fire. As a professional man, his sacrifices- rare even more to be regretted than those of others : he has lost his diploma (granted by the Royal College of Surgeons), all his instruments, books, &c. Mr. Ellis states that the fire first appeared in the cabin, and he therefore questions the statement that it was occasioned by the carelessness of an emigrant itr the steerage. Mr. Ellis was sitting in the cabin reading at 12 o'clock in the day, when the second steward rushed hi and said that the ship was on fire. A lady, of the name of Andrews, was in the cabin, also reading, at the same time; she was greatly alarmed. He believes that this unfortunate lady, with her daughter, a child nine years old, has been lost. Mr. Andrews, the husband of this lady, nas been saved. At the time the fire broke out, a great number of the emigrants were lying sea-sick in their berths, and he attributes the subsequent confusion to the alarm produced by these running naked on deck. In this way many of the children were lost. The tug-boat, which took them out of the river, had not left them half an hour, when the first smoke was seen: had she stayed a little while longer with them, every human being would have been saved. The Prince of Wales steamer arrived from the wreck at this port at five in the afternoon. She had saved a great number of persons, but had transhipped the Whole of them but fourteen on board the Affonso frigate. They spore in high terms of the kindness with which thay had been treated on board the Prince of 'Vales; and we are gratified to announce, that a subscription, set on foot at Menai Bridge, on their behalf, realised, in a very short period, upwards of 1:69. The following statement is from Captain G. Dani, of the City of Dublin Company's steamer Prince of Walos, who, seeing the distressed situation of the Ocean Monarch while on bis passage from this port to Beaumaris, in the most praiseworthy manner bore down towards her. and was happily the means saving the lives of a large number of the passengers. After-the gallant captain and his crew had rendered all the assistance. in their power, and had seen the last of the people taken front the wreck, the steamer,- having some of the people on board who were saved by their humane exertions, proceeded to her destination, where she arrived at eight o clock : " When outside the Light-ship I discovered a ship on fire, bearing about twelve miles N.W. I immediately hauled up for her, and ordered one of the boats to be got ready. In going along 1 discovered a boat with four hands in it. I took her in tow e and in a short time after I saw a man floating on part of the wreck. I sent a boat to pick him up, and got him on board. At this time there was a great deal of the wreck floating about. I lowered my boat, and sent Mr. Batty (the mate) and three hands to see if they could pick up any one alive. As Mr. Batty was going into the boat he discovered the body of a child, not quite dead, but it was too far gone to recover. I then pro.l.eeded to the ship on fire, and got three more passengers that were floating. When I came up to the ,hip she was in one flame from fore to aft. 1 did not think it prudent to go alongside of her, but I came to anchor close ahead of her. At this time the wind was increasing, anti a heavy sea running, and so much of the wreck hanging about the vessel the boats could not ap proach her with safety. I then got the passengers to assist to weigh my anchor, and returned to pick up my oNn boat. I then returned to the ship, and saw from twenty to thirty people under the bowsprit of the ship. 1 then came to anchor close on her starboard bow, and got lines attached to the boats and saved every one that was lett on the wreek. At this trying moment Mr. Batty. was of the grcatout Curvit. tt. %Vt.) I 03 all the- other hands, who cheerfully and willingly assisted in saving all they could." The following account of the frightful occurrence is from a passenger on board the Prince of Wales" About twelve o'clock at noon, when opposite Point of Ayr, I" got the telescope to take a survey of the coast, and, turning to the sea, I saw a cloud of smoke. which struck me as coming from a steamer firing up ; but, as it continued for some time with the same feature, I thought that it might be a ship on fire. I went to Captain Dani, and, on his looking at it, he declared it to be.so, and im mediately bore down towards her. She then might be about four miles off. On nearing her a couple of miles, I was on the forecastle looking out, and heard a cry ; saw a man attached to a life buoy, the boat was got down, and he was picked up ; and a child floated past, which was also picked up, but dead ; floating cabbages and pieces of wreck came next, and then—horrible sight !—bodies of men and women, just under the surface of the water, .all the way to the burning ship, which was at anchor. "The Brazilian frigate Affonso was anchored a-little distance from her, and rendering every assistance with the boats. On our coming up on her larboard bow, to our horror it was crowded with poor wretches —men, women, and children—hanging to ropes, spars, and the wreck of the foremast, crying most piteously to he saved from their frightful position, the awful element fire lite rally Chasing them into the equally destructive one water, which was very rough, causing the vessel to surge ten or twelve feet at every heave, continually immersing those who had slid down the hanging wreck of ropes and sails, on the chance if being taken off by the boats, which, un fortunately, dare not approach for fear of being swamped. Then came a sight, sickening and never to be forgotten : they one by one dropped off into the water, unable to hold. on any longer, either from the heat or from exhaustion, we and the boats looking on, unable to render help further than picking those up who were bold enough to jump. "At length some twelve or fourteen were all that re mained; the sea got a little smoother, and our ship (the Prince of Wales) went ahead of her, and dropped her anchOr, letting her drop down as near as possible.. A ropa was then passed by a boat from us and eased away to the wreck ; then a man, a credit to humanity, a sai!or. from the si:ip New World, which was going out to sea, stripped, and took a rope round his body, climbed up to the bowsprit, and, amidst encouraging cheers from all about, slung them one by one into the boat, and by that means saved the lives of one man, aged seventy, four women, and five or six children, the last on the fatal ship. All that I saw saved were of the - lowest class of Irish and the manufacturing districts of Lancashire." - It is stated that one female was thrust overboard by another woman who was frantic; that she came in con tact with another female in a dying state, and who, when she breathed her last in the water, formed a buoy, by clinging to which the survivor was saved. This appears to be rather problematical. . _ All the survivors who were taken on board the Affonso speak in the warmest terms of praise of her noble com mander, and of her most benevolent crew. Everything that that frigate had on board was liberally and bounti fully supplied to them. Biscuit and bread, meat and vegetables, brandy and wine, all were banded about with unbounded profusion ; and we need scarcely say that these esculents and drinkables were most acceptable to the wretched sufferers, all of whom were dree elied with wet, yet parched with thirst, and most of whom were literally in a state of nudity. And, talking of nudity, this most humane crew supplied to the best of their ability, the wants of the survivors, in this respect. To one they gale a coat, to another trousers, and to another a shirt, until at length, in this way, every one brought on board the frigate had some essential requisite of clothing supplied. Many of the survivors are to proceed to their destina tion in the United States by the Hope, appointed to sail yesterday. Many were, however, so terrified that they decline proceeding, and have had their passage money re turned. The passage money amounted in the aggregate to about £l3OO. The fare in the first cabin was £2O in the second, £l2; in the state-room, £5; steerage, first deck, £4; second deck, 10s. The following is said to be the number of persons on board the Ocean Monarch, together with the number of those saved and unaccounted for : Steerage Second cabin First .. Crew Doctor .. . ON BOARD. SAVED. Queen of the Ocean . Affonso Smack Prince of Wales 32 156 218 To account for CABIN PASSENGERS.—Mr. and Mrs. D3W ; Mr. Southworth ; Thomas Henry; J. K. Fellowes, and Mr. Gregg,—all of whom are said to have been saved. SECOND CLASS CABIN PASSENGERS.—Mr. James Sid dell, Maine ; Mrs. Howard and child, England ; Mrs. Reynolds ; Mrs. Roper and two children ; Miss Maria Bunning ; Mrs. Shaw ; Mr. H. Powell, Mr. Bristow ; Mr. Murphy, and four others. Few of the steerage passengers would be known by Uome here, and we therefore do not publish them., August ,‘:9, ig4So The captain has published a letter thanking the gentle men on board the yacht for their extraordinary exertions, and expressive of his admiration of the skilful and sea manlike manner in which the Queen of the Ocean waS handled. The sympathy shown to the poor creatures is creditable . to all concerned. Mr. Lynn, who was on board the Bra zilian frigate, as caterer to the distinguished party, pro-. vided them with soup and other necessaries. A number of policemen's top coats, and other articles of wearing apparel, were sent from the Dock Police-office, for the use of the unfortunate people, as they were landed from the nierhead, from the different vessels which con veyed them into port. The seine spirit of humanity towards the survivors per vades all classes. Mr. Baker, the comedian, suggests a benefit play at the Theatre-Royal, which will take place on Thursday evening, when the amatuers who appeared a year ago in the Twelfth Night, will again perform that piece. The Brunswick Club purposes getting up an ama teur performance at the Royal Amphitheatre; and Mr. B. R. Isaac has announced the diverting the proceeds of his own Grand Concert, to come off this evening, to the same benevolent cause. When we consider the very de pressed state of the times amongst all classes, we are in clined to say (as Cowper said of " England" at large), " Liverpool, with all thy faults, we love thee still." In order to ascertain the nue)er of survivors as nearly as possible, a meeting of them was summoned, on Sun day, at Messrs. Ilaruden's office. Nearly 150 drew up, and although clothing had been provided for many, a majority of the poor creatures were in the most pitiable arid destitute condition. One poor woman who was . present had lost not less than five of her children. The' passengers were teken to the poice-olice, where clothing was provided for them. Several of the unhappy beings are in the Northern Hospital, with fractured liMbs and other injuries. Many of them are suffering severely from the long immersion in the water. Some of the invalids were conveyed to the Birkenhead hospital. The members of the bir. still on eircri, at once got up a subscription, and raised in a tew hours el4lo. The stewardess lost her life in courageously attempting to get the powder out of the cabin. She was forced back b 7 the fumes, and fell dead on reaching the deck. The powder exploded with a report like that of a cannon. The vessel continued to burn until one o'clock on, Fri day month)... One person on board lost his wife and child, and £BOO. It appears from the latest conjectures that the fire was not first seen in the cabin, and there was no smoke there, and that it first showed itself near the steering-wheel, where the store-room is situated. Mr. and Mrs. Dow, of Glasgow, were rescued by the Miens°, after being long in the water, and drive i by the waves from spar to 'par. A young man named Thompson, a seaman belonging to. Liverpool. seeing the danger, jumped in the water, witty his child tied on his back, and held on by the chain cable,• also suppor;ing his wife, who was also in the water. After" the lapse of an hour and a half the child was washed away,- and the wife soon shared the same fate. The young man was saved. Censure has been cast upon the commanders of the Cambria' and Orion, whose steam-vessels Fussed in sight of the ship. The charge is a serious one; and it were wrong to give it credence until an investigation of the case take place. It is stated, that not knowing the extent of the calamity, and seeing (in the distance) other vessels, and a number of boats round the ship, they did not deem their assistance necessary. The captain of the Cambria says that he had only as much coal as would take him to Liverpool, and that he did not know she was an emigrant ship. lie had also two hundred passengers on board, and his decks were-completely crowded with live stock, which would have rendered it difficult to have rendered assist ance,.with.such a heavy sea running. His coals would have run out, and he mvst have remained at an chor, which would have placed his vessel in great danger, had it come on to blow. Captain Murdoch also acquits the captains of these steam-vessels of all blame. lie says it would have taken an hour and a half after the was. dis covered by them for them to have reached the Ocean Monarch. In the House of Commons, on Saturday, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer promised that the fullest enquiry Should take place into the circumstances. Mr. Hume alluded to the Cambria and Orion having passed the ship; and trusted that Jerome, who had saved seventeen lives► would be adequately rewarded.. The' melancholy carestrophe was improved frun the pulpits of most of the churches, and in several, collections were made in ait7 of the unfortunate suffe ern. The United States Consul has addressed a letter of thanks- to the gentlemen on board the frigate and the yacht. • The Prince de Joinville left £lO for two seamen on board _the frigate, wh) - exerted. themselves courageously during the dreadful scene. The Brazilian minister 1-4 £lOO for the crew of that vessel, but on Sunday, when this fact was communicated to them, they retuned to receive the. money, and wished: it to be handed to the surviving sufferers. When only a dozen helpless women and children remained on the burning wreck, paralyzed with •fear and totally incapable of helping themselves by descending from the tottering bowsprit to the boats which, in the midst of the heavy sea and , wreck, in vain offered their assCstance below, the seaman, Jerome, stripped him self naked, made his way through the sea and wreck, and with a line in his hand, succeeded in lowering the. last helpless victims safely into the boats, being himself the last man to leave the wr,'ck. On•his arrival on board the Brazilian stcam-frigate Affonso, he was received on the quarter-deck by the Prince de Joinville and the Duke d'Aumale, who, shaking him by the hand, praised his gallantry in the most flattering terms,. bestowing. on him an ample gratuity. The blackened Mast and some'of the spars of the unfortunate ship, with portions of the rig ging attached, were towed into the river on Friday night, by one of the steam-tugs which found them floating near the six t :vherethe remains of the vessel went down. They were floated into the Prince's Basin, where they remain- Mr. Baker, the comedian, was not a passenger by tne Ocean Monarch, as stated by a contemporary. The lady. of Adu iral GrenfelL took charge of a caild which was rescued from the burning ship. It has since been claimed by a Mrs. River, who lies at the Northern Hospital. The meeting between the mAher and child was most affecting, the poor woman having lost all hopes of ever seeing it again: The poor child had the horrors of the scene so strongly impressed on its mind, that during sleep, it was evidently, in imagination again amid the ter rors from which it had been rescued, frequently starting , screaming, and muttering exclamations of alarm. The Journal says :—On Friday we visited Regent-street and the other streets lying at the north end of the town, where the unfortunate survivors have taken up their tem porary residences. Never did- we witness such squalid masses of human beings as these survivors present. Mos t of them are women, some with burns on their necks and shoulders, produced by the blazing masts and timbers,. and others with black eyes-. and contused- wounds upon various parts of their persons, caused by frequent surges on the tops of the waves against broken spars and the hull of the burning vessel: The Skerryvore steam-tug arrived on Saturday morning from the scene of the late disaster with five bodies (two women, one man, and two children,) and a quantity of spars, sails, &e., belonging to the ship. The bodies had been previously picked up by boatmen, and when brought to Liverpool were placed in the house appropriated for the unclaimed dead, at the south end of the Prince's Dock, There were several bruises and cuts on the heads and fece s of the bodies, and one of the children had ap2areutly been scorched. LOCAL sIIEE'IIA Liz. HARRINGTON WATER WORKS.—At a meeting on Wednesday, for finally winding up the affairs, a dividend of £9 5 per share was declared, and a vote of thanks car ried to Mr. Stanistreet, the able secretary of the company. SELECT VESTRY.—The Select Vestry met on Tuesday. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Rector Campbell. The total number sick in the house was stated to be 458. Mr.- Stc•ains sent in a letter tendering his resignation as a vestryman, on account of his health. The aflnirs of Nel son, the late collector, it appeared were under examina tion, the Vestry having taken legal advice on the subject, and applied to counsel for an opinion from which it was expected they would be able to prosecute the defaulter. William George, jun. and his wife were elected to the situations of book-keeper, store-keeper, and porteress at the Industrial School. The Medical Reliet Committee reported the resignation of Dr. Torbuck, who requested that Mr. Kelly might be appointed, he having engaged to pay Dr. Torbuck a certain sum of money advanced by himself. This arrangement was declined. On the sub ject of cholera the Rector said they were informed that, should we be visited with it, Liverpool was better pre pared than when it was last here. He did not think there was any cause for alarm. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—Amonest the bills ordered for payment was one of £704 4s. 10d., for extra watching at the docks, from the 14th of March to the 11th of April, and from the 12th of July to the Ist of August. The Chairman stated that this sum, with what had already been paid, would make a total of £llOO with which the surveyor's department of the Dock Estate had been taxed in consequence of the recent appreh-nded disturbances. Mr. Henderson said that great-expense had also been in curred by the shipowners in extra watching.—An applica tion was made from the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, for the use of the life boats on the occasion of the approaching regatta, the applicants to pay the•men. The committee viewed the application favcurably; and it was left in the b Inds of the sub-committee.—lt was reported that on Tuesday last two flats with lighted fires on board, passed through the cut from the canal into the docks, and that the captains stated that they were ignorant of any regula tion to the contrary. Public notice was ordered to be given of the regulation for preventing fires on board of vessels in the docks.—The receipts of dock and light dues at the port of Runcorn for the past month were stated to be on 242 vessels, of 12,709 tons, £53 Os. 9d. lIEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the meeting on Thursday, the following returns of deaths were r Parbh of Liverpool., Extra parochial Wards, This week. Last week. This 'week. Last week All causes l6l 184 52 57 Fever.. Scarlatina .. 28 23 10 12 Diarrhoea .. 31 45 12 12 Total deaths this week, 213; previous week, 241; de crease, 28.—The opinion of Mr. Cowling, barrister, had been taken as to interments in pits, &e. It was the opi nion of the learned counsel that the magistrates had pro perly declined in the case of St. Patrick's burial-ground, but that the act of parliament would enable toe committee to sustain an indictment if, after any interment, the earth was removed from the top of the coffin. The Town-clerk was directed to give notice to the various sextons that this course would be adopted without further notice.—A letter was read from Mr. North, reminding the Health Committee that the memorial of the inhabitants of Kirk dale, on the subject of the rates, was referred by them to the Council, and requesting their prompt attention to the wishes of the memorialists. The applicant was informed, that the Sub-committee to whom it was referred would be prepared to repOrt to the next Council.—Mr. Har bord, seconded by Mr. Parker, then moved that reporters be admitted to the future meetings of the Health Com mittee. On a division the numbers were,—for the ad mission of rep' rters 8, against 4, namely,—For, Messrs. Danson, Harbord, Rtade, J. Holme, Walthew, Parker, Hornby, and Bennett; against, Messrs. Rathbone, Mor ris, Tinne, and Lace.—Mr. Harbord will have to obtain the confirmation of this resolution from the Council. i..3Btrat 11.0.1),5. At Chester assizes, a man named Bevan was sent to prison for four months, fur " drilling" persons at Mot tram to the use of arms. The Nat Bank Cotton Mill, near Heywood, was de stroyed by fire on Friday. It was occupied by Mr. Pilling, who is insured for £2OOO in the Liverpool. office. The loss is estimated at £3OOO. Mr. Pierrepoint, dentist, of Manchester, has a turkey cock which is now bringing up ten chickens with the utmost tenderness, after having, with great pride, regu larly sat on the eggs with every attention, until the pro cess of incubation was completed. During the late heavy rains, the soldiers in the encamp ment at Manchester, at present about 900 strong, have' suffered severely. The canvass, of which their tents are composed, has proved unable to resist the rains, and every' article within has been constantly saturated. An imme diate change is anticipated. LORD J. RUSSELL AND THE WOMEN.—MrS. Theobald, the female insurrectionist, who spoke at a Repeal meeting at Manchester on Tuesday, announced that 100,000 females were ready organised in London, and were prepared to march as a body on Lord John Russell. Heaven help the premier WANT OF ACCOMMODATION AT THE " PIKE."—At the Bolton licensing sessions, last week, Mr. Brownlow. solicitor, applied on behalf of Mr. Radcliffe, for a license to a house at Rivington Pike, and produced a memorial signed by all the publicans in Horwich, overseers, guardi ans of the poor, and other parties; and it was urged that as the "rude and antique" spot, commanding such splen did views, had now become a place of such favourite re sort, it was necessary to have a place for refreshments; and, again, that the resort would be still more famed when the Rivington Pike water scheme. was carried into effect at Liverpool. The magistrates, however, declined to grant the license. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS.—We understand that it is in contemplation to divide the Lancashire district, now presided over ecclesiastically by two prelates, the Right Rev. Dr. Brown, bishop of the district, and the Right Rev, Dr. Sharpies, his coadjutor bishop, into two sees, — one to be called the see or bishopric of Liverpool,—of which Dr. Brown, it is said, is likely to be the bishop; and the bishopric of Salford, under the care of Dr. Shar pies. On Thursday, the Right Rev. Dr. Hogarth was to be appointed bishop of the Durham District, and it is was supposed would be installed in Usher College, near Durham.—Manchester Guardian. MEETING OF ORANGEMEN, — DEPUTATION TO THE AUTHORITIES. —Owing to the late outbreak in this town a very numerous meeting of the members of the various Orange Lodges in the Ashton district, assembled at Ashton a few days ago, when it was unanimously agreed that a deputation should be appointed to wait upon the magistrates and inform them of the willingness of the body of Orangemen to aid them in the suppression of any disturbance that might take place whenever called upon. The deputation was courteously received, and the autho rities expressed their thanks for the loyal feeling Moth. forted by the members of this loYal order. THE LOSS OF THE SHIP " KENT" EAST INDIAMAN 141. FIRE. The care of the destruction of the " Kent," by fire, in the Bay of Biscay, on the 28th February, 1827, bears con siderable analogy to .t bat of the loss of the Ocean Monarch/ although the mortality was not nearly so great, that we supply a few of the facts, by way of historical reminis cence. The Kent, a fine new ship, of 1,350 tons, ( 0 1 1 / 50 tons more than the Ocean Monarch,) commanded by Captain Henry. Cobb, left the Downs on the 19th Febru ary of the year stated, bound for Bengal and China. Sh e had a crew of 148 men, including her officere ; and 20 officers, 344 soldiers, 43 women, and 66 children, belong ing to the 31st regiment ; also 20 private passengers. nnal' ing a total of 641 souls. The Ocean Monarch had in ° , ~"" on board 398. Leing 243 short of the numb er in the gem - On the night of the 284 h February, when the Kent w O3- in latitude 47° 30", longitude 10 0 , a gale came on Irmo' the west, which gradually increased till the morning' About midnight the vessel rolled alarmingly. Shortly be fore this anofficer with Ee Well-meant intention nf certaining that all ' was right below, went into tile boil with twos ailors, carrying with them a light in a rat ee a, lantern; but seeing that it burnt dimly, the officer- 11001 9 it up to the orlop deck to be trimmed. He atterw aru t discovered that one of the spirit casks was adrift, and sO the seamen for some billets of wood to secure it. In t absence the vessel made a lurch, the officer unfortuea' el l e t dropped the lamp and.: in endeavouring to recover it. go.the cask, when it was suddenly stove, and the spiri ts communicating with the light the whole was instantly 1 a blaze. ea' As the spat was surrounded by water-casks,.theybOd, the fire might be extinguished, but it soon gained he° it and, succeeded by dense volumes of smoke, ascended 5 the four hatchways. The cry soon was that the fl the had reached the cable tier, and little hope was enter tain of preserving the vessel. The alarm and horror on b became intense. :With great presence of mind the e_trei tain ordered the lower deck to be scuttled,.and the 174 ports to be opened to admit the waves. The sailors soldiers speedily obeyed, but could not until several4;ea sons, sick soldiers, women, and children had p ert- ice from suffocation. After this there seemed but a of death—by fire, or by water. The scene was dread 01700 The upper decks were covered with between 60 0 a n , ro st beings, many of them from sea-sickness and alarm n! naked. An explosion of the magazine was a ltnnsL e r to mentarily expected. The captain ordered the vq s , 50 be scuttled forward to draw the fire in that directio of between it and the magazine there were several qtsiel'ai water casks. The cries, the prayers of the helpless " meantime heartrending, while others fell into the sttPf°rf despair. At last the joyful announcement was u ' adle ro ved the fore-top that a sail was bearing down, and shePapteill c to be the Cambria, a brig of 200 tons burthen, re Cook, bound to Vera Cruz. The boats of the Kel S , the ir a got out, and the females placed in them first, __..!°4„, yet w conduct was that of perfect resignation, for they „ispes in imminent peril. A number of extraordina r y were „e -were made from yawning death. Several soltcle_ r : a r n a risked in attempting to save their wives and cluln..u . "Vbe several of the latter were drowned in the trantsbit brav e • means of rescue taken by Captain Cobb and all tha t • fellows around were fearless for themselves, and en na humanity could dictate for others. Considerit?gernore ture of the circumstances, comparatively fevi Anti greßs lost. The captain was the last to escape, board thTeheameebergiaramtuaylatbir conceived; and sanadndthao.rneseLl„ettitivi,ebsvioirti of her, soon after saw the majestic ship, which a them,, passed over the waters like a conqueror,. °7 Tigliq. pillar of tire, in the vast desert of th© S s ; "ton , 1 41 4; Aeiro der, p Rob? - 'on Cat _3 N e tri Co IV! long Pie( %ea' -sail, Au A g , riveO Ro Jal Na W a Aa Sir