The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-26 00:00:00

THE DISASTERS AT THE WEEr INDIA
ISLANDS.
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7'he steamer Douro—, iii arrived on Thursday,
brings details of the destructive eff,cte of the hurricane
whieb eared St. Thomas on the Mb ult. The demure
does to shipping was immense, eighty vessels laming
sunk or blocs ashore. The loos of life wee also very
great, three hundred bodies having been already
recovered. In the town houses were unroofed, and in
some more blown down, and while the gale was at its
height three shocks of earthquake occurred, which
wrought great devaaalott.
The utmost excitement was caused at Southampton
by the arrival of the Douro. Tbe loss of life chiefly
eff. ate Southampton. It I. expected, indeed, that
folly 300 women ad ehildren here are thrown upon
the world by this disaster. Is one row of house, in
the town there are Nix families whose mistier@ were
on board the Rhone and Wye. The mayor celled •
poolie meeting for yesterday (Monday) to promise
srrangenients for collating anbariptions in ninon.'
of those who have been left destitute. The Flamplaire
loidependeng published the following riatemelli■ given
by prisons on the Rhone •bo reaped.
ii Holdman, brats...in, gives the following secant
of the wreck of the Whoa*, and the Jeath of her sore-
mood.. :—" We were in a N.W. gala blowing freak
' *hen we parted our cable with 60 fathoms in the hawse,
and steamed away to sea. After steaming for perhaps
an hour it became skier, and is shout 15 minutes we
found ourselves aloes to the shore. The captain than
gays otters to tutu esters, which we did immediately,
and cleared the point. We prooesdcd Moaning
through the Out, sod mat • south-east wind blowing
fearfully heavy, it then became very thick indeed, so
that we mold seareely we anything a ship's length. We
had been steaming about two hare when! reported to
the captain that there was lad very close, indeed nearly
abreast of us midships. on the port hand; with that the
ship went ashore iroinediately. The captain said to me,
hood Lord, hi it ear possible?' and I replied, 'Yes,
sir; the ship's ashore.' The captain never spoke to me
again, and shortly afterwards • ea struck him in the
side and washed him over to the top of • skylight. The
next sea took him between the ship's side sod the rooks,
and I saw no more of hiin. J 1 sea struck me, and find-
ing I wee getting exhausted, and could hold on no longer,
I loosed my hold. The &id officer, Hr. Darby Topper
was killed by. spar about an hour before this; and I
saw no more of any as for I was washed overboard
myself. I and five other men were saved by shoalsg
to a henainak bin.which contained seamen's hammocks,
and Boated. About 11 o'clock at night, as near as I gen
nonage from the darkness,! was washed ashore; all my
clothes were washed clean off we, and I bad nothing
but &Ant: of drawers and a shirt on when! laded on
BCIII Island. We remained there all night. I went and
saw the goverror next morning, and he provided we
with • boat. We got assistance from Tortola by a man
named Smith, who took us on board the TOO in
Tortola Bay, From there we went to fit. Thomas,
and got on board the Doom It may be of interest to
know that • boy named Bailey floated ashore on • Ste-
amy, which he hes kip.. He wee on a ooral reef there
all night, and the next morning joined us on the island
where we were, and be has brought borne the buoy
with him. Four boys were saved; one the engineers'
one the chief alleer'a, and the others ship's boys. I
saw one person drowned. I recovered the sae,
officer's body next morning, on Salt Island with that
of Daly, the barman, and another whom I could not
identify, but I b-lom it was the data. These three
were buried on flat Island. I took the chid officer's
ring from his linger, and I.h•ee brought it home."

• DOT'S STORY.
John Bailey, sin ntelingent, nine-looking lad, living at
No. 5. Regent-street, Southampton said: When the
ship Rhone struck I wee on deck, and jempod on the
port side, and then into the water. I was there about
half en hour on • piths of wood, it'd then I maw an
ordinary eseman named Gough fail out of a lifabaoy,
and I swam towards it. I was knoeking about a long
time with both my arms through the lanyard@ until it
began to rain, and then I thought it was no good
stopping any longer, and so I dropped off to sleep in the
buoy; but I had no supper first though. I did not
dream at all, end when I woks up I was near the
shingle about three quarters of a mile from the shore.
I struck off for the shore and saved myself, and then
laid down and went to sleep all night, with the Weimar
for Mr pillow. The buoy is marked "Rhone," and I
have brought it home with we. Of course I had nothing
fot bre. fast. I walked about for three or four hours
on Beef Island, and than I fell in with two others, And
we've eau brine in the Douro.
_• OTniT.

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Beery Bu,k.U, a fireman of the Rhone, living in
Crown.terrsee. Bevois Valley, and: We were told to
,et as much steam as we could, and it mashed 2IIMM,
and we stomped on until about one o'clock in the
day. We struck on the rocks at Salt Island.
I should think we were therefor seven or eight nonntes,
when the obis( engineer galled us op from bslow,
when the ship broke in halves, and I went op the sky
light. I saw the ries break right through bor side,
-nd when I got on deck In. the me come nhl over
her. I saw many persons rushing to the fore eon, panicio,
and up through the skylight on to the srar deck, when
I was washed overboard. I can give no further account
until I found myself on Br"( Island. where I got about
hallimat tan at night, I should think.

TFIE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTIER3I7RTS FINAL
REPLY TO THE NIKBOKIAI! RE4PECTING

TIIE BISHOP OF—a.uussmirs CRAWL
The following farther reply has bees returned be
an addreee from a large member of eleryiginem sad
church ~dens in the diem= of Belielewy by the
elrokbiabop of Canterbury :
" Addington-perk, Oct
"Rev. and Dam the abort answer I gave to
the address you forwarded me some time i=1:1-
formed you that there were legal as well as
questions involved in my complianos with its prayer
In the sense in which I understood It, and that these
would require my VW/ careful oceeldoratiosi. You
seemed to expect that I should take some Wide notice
of the late charge of your diocesan in the way of cen-
sure or approval, in consequence of the representations
' you made to me of some weeps in that charge. But
your address proceeds upon as erroneous view of the
duties of an archbishop As bishop of his own diocese
he is precisely on the same footing with each of his
episcopal brethren in the province. Although he be
pores, f..r certain purposes. PA that
primacy gives him no more
_light to interfere with the
oond,ot .4 such bishops in their diocese than they have
with his, until his Lotion as metropolitan be invoked,
for the purpose of admonishing or coercing one of his
suffragans, through his court, on amnia to regard
to an injury inflicted on some party by that
mirages
in the exercise of his administrative anthorityi
diocese.

I it; not, however, Who from the tenour of the
address, that you make any such appeal to my juriadio-
tion in the Court of arches in the matter of the charge;
so that it would be impertinent in roe ea •broleer
bishop to sit in the judgment on the charge of the
Bishop of Salisbury without such appeal, and pre-
mature were I to pass any opinion with respect to it,
when my action as metropolitan might possibly be
invoked to pals a judicial sentence upon it.
"The subscribers say that they feel solemnly boned
to resist the introduction into their churches of the
practices of the Ritualists ; but they do not allege that
the Bishop ho insisted in his charge upon the intro-
duction into all or any of the churches of his diocese
of these novel practices, which they assert they would
feel bound to resist; there is accordingly so far no
ground for the intervention of the metropolitan's
authority.
"In conelusion, I must siprem a hope that the novel
variations from the established mega of oar Church,
which you intimate have caused the 'dimwit= of many
of the attached members in the diocese of Salisbury,
will not be continued after the Report of Her Majesty's
Commissioners ; that the restraint of all such variations
ia expedient with a view to promote the pesos of the
Church.