The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-01 00:00:00

THE DUNGENESS COLLISION.

The folL)wing interesting incidents of the fearful
collision by which the Nartkreett, an emigrant ship,
was sank while at anchor, when more than 300 live
were lost, are taken from various sources, and will be
read with great intere4.

An inquiry wa.. instituted at the Custom-house,
Darer, before the itemiver of Wrecks, when a state-
ment WAS made by James Bemithe, of Peabody's
buildings, Blackfriers, London, who is the only Bur-
flier who WM on deck at the time the collision oc-
curred : - -
Ile said that on Tuesday afternoon, about one o'clock,
tno Sorth.ftret was brought to anchor in Dungeness Road.,
some two or three miles front the lighthouse She re-
Mined at anchor until Wednesday night at 1020, when he
went on deck. Atter he had been there about live minutes
he heard one of the crew shout out •' Ah••y, ahoy !" and he
thin blew a whistle. The men continued to shout and
whistle about five minutes, when he saw a two-mated
steamer with a straight bow come stem on and strike the
Northfleet amidships. Ile SAW the riling light of the
Northrleet at th. time of the eolli•ion, and it was burning
brightly lie hoticed that the deck was bulged up. fie
sang out to the steamer to stand by the Northfieet. SA they
hail four hundred souls on hoard, but no ...ere.. back.
The steamer was higher out of the water than the Nor/Meet,
and he could not see any one on deck. The steamer
hail no bowsprit or figure-head. He went below
with the captain and carpenter, anti held a light while
the carpenter attempted to stuff oakum and other things
Into the leak, but it we., of no use whatever. He then
went on deck, and assisted in getting the boat down on the
same side as the visael had been struck. the boatswain
had charge of the loading of the boat. Beveridge got into
the rigging of the mainmast, and the ship appeared to rise up
• little, and swung round by the head. After the ship foun-
dered he stru, k out, and got hold of some part of the
rigging, where he remained until he was rescued by the host
ot the pilot cutter Prince,e. When he went upon deck at
hilf.past ten o'clock. Wore the colliaion occurred, the
weather was wet and drizzling, and the wind was blowing a
moderate bre, Cu off the isnd. The night -as dark, but the
shore lights could lie seen distinctly. Ile heard the men of
the watch shout to the steamer five minutes before the col-
lision happened. From to to 30 minutes elapsed from the
time the ship was stru,k till she foundered. Ile saw the
captain, at the time of the foundering. going down on the
port side giving orders. The captun, trim first to last,
never lost his self-possession, and gave orders which were
obeyed by °Mous and wow.

Thorns' Biddies, woo Was shot by Captain Knowles for re-
fusing to obey orders, and who lies at the Dover Hospital,
gives the following account of the catastrophe i—ile says he
is &single man and was going out to I ferments as a labourer.
He retired to rest about half past ten In the evening of Wed-
nesiitay. and he thinks he had been in bed not quite half an
hour when the vessel received a very seven shock On
getting out of bed he ascertained that the vessel had been
run into by a steamer, and almost immediately after be hail
receive I this information, the ehlp's carpenter, having ex-
amined the Injured part of the vessel, gave order for all
bend, to get on deck as quickly as possible, as the vessel was
sinking. Biddies went up on deck with the rest, where a
scene of great confusion presented fleet The emigrants were
streaming up on the deck half-dressed, and almost mad with
fright. Rockets were fired off, hells were rung, and the
usual signals of distress were all qul.. kly given. Bidding
thinks he remembers one gun being tired. The pumps were
set to work almost Immediately, and almost every one on
board worked with hearty goodwill for about fifteen minutes.
Every effort to gaits 013 the water ceased, however, when, at
the explratiim of that time, it was discovered that the water
bad reached the second deck. The floatiug boxes under-
ueath could be heard thumping against the upper deck.
giddiss says he very nets Ii wanted to s no something
he had in his chest below, and left the pump to go there
for the purpose of donut so, when he found that the water
had already reached the top of the steps leading down to
the deck in which his cabin was situates! The cord talon hail
increased on deck. Some men were going about to find
their wives and children; some were preparing for the
event winch every one knew must happen, unless
they received help from on shore, or from a pass-
ing shin; some laid hold if spare spars, ladders,
pails, c. —indeed, anything that would goat others
were fleshing frantically to the boats; but amid all
was heard the voice if Captain Knowles, who, haying
seen his wife'into one of the boats, stood at the wheel giving
directions for the firing of signals and devising the best
means for saving as many lives as visible out of 400 "Ike
women first I'll shoot the man that dares to get into a
ho-st ;" lent thin threat, Riddles says, came almoit too late.
liiiiii:ss saw that the en either side were tilling fast
with men. and, seeing let reason whi lie sh.uld not make an
effort for his life as well as the rest, lie !mimed into a boat
St the stern, almost immediately under the captain's
eye, in sa Inch the captain's wife was sitting under the
care of the boatswain. Captain Kneel. saw the move.
meat, and, anxious that every opportunity of escape should
be
_given to the frightened women, be ordered him out.
Bierdiss knew that the vessel would sink elomst Immediately,
and that thts wee his last chance of escape, s be resolutely
refused t edey orders, lhe captain repeated the order, and
threetene ito tire if it was not obeyed. The boatswain, who
had charge of the captain's wife, attempted to force him out,
but it was of no avail. Captain Knowles motioned to the
boatswain to stand clear, and discharged his revolver at
I tiddisa's head, and be almost felt the ball pan over his bead.
The captain, discovering! that the tint shot had nottlhit
Ito intended mark, fired again, and this time with e ffeet.
for the ball embedded itself in the if sh Jost above the
left knee. Biddies almost forgot the pain which followed.
owing to the shrieks and crius for help proceeding from
the new fast-sinking vessel, which were awful, almost
drowning the round of the alarm hell, which rang
incessantly. The boat In which Biddies; had escaped,
but with barely life, was still lying alongside, and the un-
fortunate people still on board, finding that it was the only
available chance of escape with their lives mole a rush to
the stern of the vessel to get in, but Captain Kuowlea still
persevered in endeavouring ti save the women Again
the revolver was raised at the first man who mitered
the boat, the trigger was pulled,
,but,' fortunately for
the man at whom it was alined, the pistol missed fire;
the boat was soon filled with the five others, and before
Captain Kneels' could offer .y further remonstrance
the boars ropes were cast off, and the boat was rowed
hurriedly away to the tug, which had Just ateamed up
to the spot and lighted up the horrible scene with red lights.
Hardly had the boat c• ntaining nine—the captain's wife, the
boatswain, and four labourers, Including biddies, toget her
with three of the ship'. crew—got alongside the tuv, when,
by the gleam of the last roe-bet in the sky and the lights from
the tut, the figurehead of the Northfret was sten slowly to
sit, k under water. The crowded stern, rose spin the sea, and,
with a loud rushing noise, almost immediately disappeared,
leaving nearly 400 people !drooling for their lives in the
water. Biddies says the shrieking of the women and the
loud cries of the men for help were serial, and must have
been heard miles off tome of those that could not swim
were floating in the water on barrels and pails, of which they
lost their hold from sheer exhaustion. Biddies noticed one
friend of his in the water, a marri,l man, who, with his wife
and only child, was clinging to a bidder, when a wave cisme
and washed all three off ; the woman and child sank and
never rose again; the man managed to clutch the ladder,
but it was out rif his power to save his wife and child.
Thirty-four people were picked up by the tug, which re.
mained close to the spot the whole night.

Mr. Patton, inn., one of the owners of the Northfleet, ac-
companied by Captain Oates, her late commander, and
Captain Watson, of the Ocean Mail, belonying to the same
fleet, visited the scene of the wreck on Friday, and devoted
a considerable period to ascertaining such facts as could be
gathered upon the spot. Dungeness is very difficult of ap-
proach, being IS miles from Folkestone by road, ind Romney,
the lest four miles being literally a road over the shingly
beach. The intention of Mr. Patton was to have gone olf to
the wreck, lint the sea was running to high that it was ini-
pomible to launch a boat from the shore. The Nese upon
which Dungeness Lighthouse stancla, runs out, it will be
remembered tram the high land more than • couple of
.d creates a kind of breakwater to the, anchorage
under the eastern headland of this part of the coast.
The Northfieet was at anchor In II fathoms of water, well
under this headland, between a mile and three quarters
and two miles from the shore. Her top-gallants and
upper topsail yards were visible on Friday, and captain
Watson is of opinion that had the passengers and crew
taken refuge in the Hegira not ices than BO persons might
have b en saved in the yards alum-, the ship's malurnast
measuring 7Oft from the keel to the cross-beam alone. The
facia ascertained by Mr. Patton and hi. officers tend to show
that the catastrophe In its attendant circumstances was
even more painful than could have been gathered from the
newepapers published the previous day It Is litarsily trite
that when Captain Knowles let go his anchor on Wed-
nesday attcroov, he must have bad some difficulty in select-
ing the ground in coestapteuce of the large number of vessels
already anchored near the same spot.

The NorthSeet is sunk on a sandy bottom, and being laden
with railway iron it is tnonght she will soon settle down, and
day by day make a deeper bed for herself, from which no
mechanical power will ever be able to rake her. She is
standing upright, iii! In dock, Just oppostte No. 2 Battery.

Ten or a dozen persons who had. -taken passage in the
Northymt were saved by mere chance detention. hall-a.
dozen intending emigrants—one of the number having a
wife and family with him—were sent ashore at Gravesend
last week in emseguence of the crowded state of the vessel.
They complained of being left behind to the local magis-
trates.

The Special Correspondent of The Times, writing on
Saturday, says
is a primitive little village, three or four miles from
Indigene. Pilot, and Separated from it by a dreary stretch
of marsh laud said shingly beach. It would not be well for
man or horse to stray from the beaten track, at you easily
might, In the dusk; for there are pools of almost liquid mud
from shirts if you set foot in them it would be hard to escape.
At Lydil the High Bailiff, Mr. Phinn, who is coroner eirtute
officii, held an inquest to-day upon the first of the bodies
Whteh will soon strew the shore around Dungeness Light, and
will mark It as the scene of one of the most dims-
troi* creeks on no rd. 'the holy for the recovery
of whlch £lO had been offered) was pieked up at mit,
*tram ely enough, by the crew of the pilot- entrerthat rescued
twenty-five of the unfortunates on board the Nortek/feet It
we, the body of a floe young fellow, Mr. Frederic 8
Brand, who was one of the few cabin passengers, and
Was g .ing out In an official position in connection
with the Tasmanian Railway. It will be seen by the
evidence that inside the loose serge jacket worn by
the poor fellow a revolver was fund, of which two
chambers had been disclaimed. This revolver was bought
by the deceased, as he himself said, so that in case of
any disturbance, among the " navvies " on board he
I might stand by the captain, and it is surmised, with
great appearance of truth, that young Brand brought the
1 weapon on deck when Captain Knowles was nobly trying to
keep the way to the boats clear for the women and children,
and that this is the very revolver with which the captain
wounded one of the men who forced his way into the boat,
and is I.w in the hospital here. Two shots are known to
have Imen fired by Captain Knowles, who would naturally
give back the revolver to Mr. Brand when he found that In
the struggle for life the rough men who Crowded the deck
were beyond his control Young Brand fulfilled his pledge
to stand by the Captain and imitate his self merino°. At the
last moment he must hem replaced the revolver within
his fackee, tying around his bread a cork Jackal,

toned floating with his head well out ef eater, and
it , eci to Meek that In all erohaliillty the ea Ad the peer
oung renew for help eas nehearl, and diet lie Walt pessed
over In the darkness el the night, and p.rhilted it hut from
and exhmation. Ihe father Arrived while the haquem
ems being held, but Ivan sp ired else pain of giving eviaeue
hit seree Identity being sufficiently established ey lee tale
tiles, who, heppily f r lauttelf, was at the last moneelt pre-
rental from taking the command of the NortAfleer.
The only la item examined at any leeeth rodlay was
Stanley. the 'tote of tie puled cutter which hire down
noon the slekleg vessel the evidence gives no 'nether
information as to the caws of the catastrophe though it
shows blind an doubt that the riding-light of the Nofth-
&et Was distinctly visible, mid could hardly leave beets over
looked had it prqlOr wtech bemi kept on aloud the steamer
w heft sink li But the chief impress' producal by his
t,tineny upon all who heard it weeds, extrsordu“ry fatality
hy %Well the distress direals of the Sorthfieet passe,: no
!tattled, cod these 810 uuhappy creatures perished miser-
ably with the mains of help toil round them. Uarketis
e ere tired by the ileum; Stanley says that half a dozen
blue lights were teeming vu ce at mice Yet the Me
boaestationed at Deep:hese Point was not launched by the
ceadaused who had chalets of her: not cue of some 20e
vi gaols in the roa s heeded the delude awl the craw of the
cutter answered them as thEngh they were merely the
ordinary sieuala for a pilot, made liy people who, for some
u a:en or other, sere in rather on unusual hurry to get one
The pitielile sight of the ship sinking IVPile deliverance was
Ilterelly within hell ; the plot cutter Railing past her it. full
view of the haplesa to* 011 the d e,k wile must have thonglit
thereseivre aliaedoned in their mit, may ; their despairing
shrieks as the cutter disappeared in the gloom, some
lioldfng up their little children high overhead, as though
•1 laast this mute appeal sheuld preveiL—no one in
court collet listen unmoved to these incidents, tout in a
simp'e, manly way by the witness Stanley. There is still
further cause for ilisappnintment and wonder in the fact
that only one person was rescued out of the crowd who
were on deck when the ship went dOWII, except lise those who
task to the rigging. There were lit.- belts In the boats of
the North fleet, and, from the statements iit stirs ivota, it
le known that whets all efforts to launch the three remain-
ing beets proved useless, the lishings a •re ent, so that..
the water rose the boats might float. lite loose spars
were also cut adrift, and, one would have thought might
have supeottal two or three sot re of people in the
Water. Your men wore picked up floating on the
bottom of one of these boats by the crew of the second
beet belongleg to the cutter, awl one man clung
to the chides of the Rteatneug and Iran dragged lute It. But,
with these exceetions, and not takhig Into account the slue
elvers teethe two boats plcired up by the steasit-tug, spars,
boats, lirabeits, all were useless. Then the diming was Re-
reseed° without much difficulty, and lee people might have
clang to It lint this resource also failed. Nave to the Pi men
taken 'lf by Stanley. Amid so much thet It depree.in it end
aeon, t enaccount title, It is satisfactory to note, thmigh the
fact does not appear in Stanley's evidence before the feirotier,
that all who clime to the rigging were saved, ilotwitestaud•
ing the long and dreary time of mimeos° which many of
them underwent The endorance of sums id the survivors
resoled In this way was sorely Mud, ewe but for the new
energy which hope lent them, It ii pr,babla that some weal
hove succumhed. The last halfdinxen remained two hours
climate to the fore rigging alter ti,thley ttrtit appeared, end
hardly a. y hut strong men could have retained their hold on
so lifter a night. As it was, the last survivor wee so wore
out Mid chilled that he was g.t away with difficulty : soil
the cotter's crew had to employ themselves iu rubling the
hal hie, en limbs of seem of the emigrants In order to restore
eiroulatiou.

ct'

The Qeeen's message, conveyed throneh the President of
the Board of Trade to the Seeretary of Lloyd's, was tele-
graphed as follows:

‘• I have tier Majesty's commands to convey Her Majesty's
heartfelt sympathy for the survivors of the Nord:fleet. Her
Map sty is especially solicitous as to the state of Mrs.
Knowles"

To this a reply was despatchsd on the part of Mr. Forster,
who was absent at the inquest at lysid, that Mrs. Knowles,
thou_li naturally In great distress, was beating her sorrows
bravely, and ialli left Dover for le•ndun, taking under
her charge the little girl, Maria Taplin, who has
been made an orphan and left almost friendles, in the world
with such awful suddenness. Great satisfaction Is expressed
in all circles here at the littered shown by Her Majesty in this
most distressing case, and the heroism shown by Captaht
Knowles demands universal sympathy forties young widow he
bash:lL They had been married abut six necks, and when
Mr. Knowles, from Chief Officer, became the Commander,
altdclaimed eagerly the privilege of the Captaaltio wife to
accouipthy her huaband. It seemed like a stroke of fortune
given in their favour at the very moment it was courted.
Nothing could bo more touching than the story of their
parting—she clinging to him and begging to stay and share
his fate : he resolved to do his duty, to stay by the ship,
arid, however bitter the parting with her, to die, if death
came, with honour. It was the resolve of a high-
minded man und a true seaman. lie kisaed her ten-
derly, called tu the boatswain, who hail charge of
the boat, to take cure of her, and then turned to
his work, straining every nerve at the supreme crisis to
save, first, the most helpleas of his passengers, but
Striving, as we have seen, in vain His name and
memory deserve honourable recoil with those of men who
Plied higher stations, but aould have had no higher sense or
duty. His widow will, no doubt, be provided for, Two of
three offers have been received bore to board and maiul sin
the little girl already mentioned. One such offer female by
the Orphan Asylum at Ilaverstock hill another by the Rev.
E. Harland, on the part of the Orphan Home at Volwich
Vicarage, Stafford, where there are live orphans left by the
officers or crew of the Captain.
DUTRA, Suettey,

Mr. Ilrani was Muted this afternoon in the chnrchyar,l,
New Romney. Very curious y, connexions of hie If sadly
reside there, and he himself, when • boy, vislttd Rombey,
and narrowly escaped I lean by drowning whlle hashing in
000 01 the many sluices which run into the sea front the
marshes chae by. The funeral terrier was perr dened Ivy the
Rsv. Richard Smith, vicar of Si. Nichols., and the bony was
followed to the grave by the father and brother of the
deceased, together with Mr. 11. B. Walker, J.P., Captain
Oates, Mr. W. B. Walter, J P., Mr. S. Jones, J P., of
Dymchurch, and Captain Stringer. The service was in,
pres-ive, and the village street was full of poople anxious to
show their sympathy On the collie on re strewn violets,
camellias. the maidenhair fern, and wreaths of inamorta lee,
and the simple inscription was. "Samuel M. Brand. died
January 22, 1573, age 1'23." From the spot in the church-
yard wi.ere the body lies, under a wide spreading yeer-tree,
may he seen In the distance the masts of the Aiwa/feet,
showing well above the water. Arrangements have been
made for the housing and interment of the b Riles as they
come ashore. At most of the places of worship In Dover
reference was made to the wreck. and at the Mariner,'
Church this evenieg &crowded congregation assembled to
hear • sermon presohed upon the sad theme by the Rev. W.
Tate, one of the founders of the Sailors' Dome. The friends
of deceased attended the service.

irrom the Special Correspondent of Vie Titrifs.
Lynn, NEAR DUNGENESS, Monday Night.
The position of the Nod/qt.:et has not altered materially.
She is lying on ths sand, nb nt tat) mile: born (hi be sell,
in about thirteen fathoms, Ler thou masts {htiWing
above the water, even at high tide. A fresh to et-ZO is
Wowing from east south-east. In certain states of the
used the ship is (sing In a fair way for vessels which
wish to bug Dungeness l'oint. Wreck buoys hate been put
oat, and it seems necessary that Wine riding ligots should
be exhibited to prevent the possibility of some vessel fouling
the mast• in the night. No oodles have yet been recovered.
It a as Ma autlit possible that a due might have been entangled
in the rigging below the water level, but no each traces can
be detected ; pr.ibably, If creepers *me used, some of the
bodies that must be on the sands wield be got to the surface.
The sand Is Sim and hard, so that there la little risk of the
bodies being hurled as they Ile. Along other pasts of the
coast few bodies a oulil le recovered in the shifting quick-
sands whioh are ti he found here.

The divers have nit yet begun operations It seems a
pity that advantage should not be taken of the present line
weather. If • gale of wind should set in, the Nnrthtfeet
might easily burst open from the leverage which the Masts
would exert. Th.re are nearly 400 tons of railway iron in
the vessel, and with in heavy a cargo it Is very likely that
she will gradually settle down in the sand. The Trinity
House yacht Galatea and the revenue cutter Desmond
are cruising near and appear t i.e lookii g for traces
of the Mesmer which was is. collision with the North-
Reef. Even a small piece of a broken jib or bit of planking
might be valuable NI supplying evidence of the steamer's
I lentity. Hoe object of their search is to ascertain. if post'-
bin, whether the steamer itself sank after the collision. As
yet the North.tGet is holding together wonderfully well ; not
even a skylight has been washed ashore.

TIM STOTTRPRIDGE 081

patie-d
there I
was the

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am% saw
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That v

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Mr. ln meldng theelliftlPt to "4 t'
d _Atoka& any vessel% lytleg at ar.elhort—Yt
one, , .4 eye out luomy o.cool
Have leatitent any Wet, t" hut I got no reply. Th
last tune Ire were returning to the cotter. I fear
late then to nave elate people.
Was there a VetACI which might have helped you to take
oft the poe.o.nuers end crew ?—%lany could have helped us,
lent whnll I Sang Old it ...it too lete. . „

But ~hi,, y.it firer got there, ndght not oth,r people have
been tar, .i II otbse bolt:, Mel cool. al.:ll:shier No, all Vint
could lime been sav,sl tbaus ware saved by oa Other boots
w 44.1 only have SIM 4th. cape people. That Is my . pibiell,
at lesatoatf even th to held n Wore boats nt the tune we
arrived there !herc -old
si 'lot vs Saved more lives.
diFAlter some other uotl s bad been put le the witness,
tie examination Wm, ge.noied : We kept the resened people
on hard ti e cutter toad d 0 ILIA, oh, n we wade for U.sver.
Alta lending WM/ thank we pul, hank inane arielsinioureund,
thlnktog IL possible we might pia up some one on a spar.
About half-past semis o'clock 4 esterduy (Ilkley) merninr
while looking about With Thu dose, I saw a speck In the
OSLO?, and ordere 1 the cutter L 4 be tacked to reach It. 0:i
getting donne LI ire as. at -uses It was • dead body, nod
took it Into ,Iso cutter It was the body of a Pane,: ain”,
tl,atlng uprb,hr, supportel by a 1110-belt—a vork-horkst :
but he ass unite demi( iria unbuttonloy• Ids jockel a re-
rely: r drepprd from rtma Tx anonbere4 revOlver, of which
some chambers were loaded ant some not. I gave ens the
body to the rare of the elder boatman at Coastlatard-
station No. 3 The body was al terrartitopnvey col In Lydil,
and el that which has been Ideutlned as the body of Mr
iiraiid. . .. .. . . ..

—.—
Some other .iontions wife replied to by the witness,
and Gil* ireutiey wt. seti nroeti.

On Satur.lay morning the Lord Mayor received l the
tollowlig communication relative to the clb•uster from
her Majesty tile Queen :
"o.horue, Jan. 25.
My Lotel,---1 am commanded
,to anquaint your 1441
that the Queen, having been ',flume.' that a sulfserlpti.•ll a
being raised in the City, at your suggestion, for the relief of
the aurvirora from the wrerk of the North fleel, and of the
wives and families of the men who perished, eimMes mo to
ouch so to you a cheque for two hundred pJunde, an a dons-
tion from her Mejefuy and I am at the same time to express
he r Niajesty's deep sympathy with the flutterers by this
drf adful calawlty.-1 have the honour to be, my Lord. your
most obedient servant,
T. M. RIDDRIRII.
" ToAhe Right 11. m. the Lord Mayor."

I loving the whole of fia'utday every poet brought to
the frtansion-honne, In Lotvinn, monis of money in aid
in aid of the relief fund, and at the close if the day
the total ammint ',waived we abent 000. This
a r.,t if:, lug result of the Chief Nlngiiitrate's al opvid proven
how wideepreasil in the sympathy for the widow! and
orphaus and the resit of the stiffen-i.e.

On Saturday, when Captain fltanley, of the Prim-Pre pilot
cutter, after giving his evidvitee, was surrounded a Pale
knot of admirers, Corm body Inked aho was volug I say bliss
for what he had done. "Pay me,", said Stanley, turtling
Iter,ely on tho questioner, •• I don't want any nay. What I
did was only my duty, and I would do It again toArtght If
there was a Mince. I don't want no money, but as there's
medals knocking shout for this sort of thing, yet know, I
it n's say that lion, was to o“me in my way I should say no
to having it handed I seer. I should like • medal, if it was
only made of leather, and didn't cost tropence-h,llpenny:

One of the moit return' narratives in connection with the
sad disaster is that Mrnithed by John Brown, labourer,
who remained en tbe ship till all went down. Ile had
despaired of his life. when Its attention was directed to a
fibbing stoack, mid he leaped into the sea in the hope of
reaching it. TIL, scene at every point of the vessel was
most distressing; men, seats, and children were in the
net ,4 praying; and others we: e relining about in the most
frantic manlier Ti, the midst of the wild confusion, the
captain's wife was being lowered into the beat on the
atarboard tilde. She had been aroused by her husband,
who assisted her to dress, and as a precaution against sink-
ing she put on a cork brit. As she WWI lowered the capt tin
waved his hands and said, 'flood lo,e, my dear, good bye "
and his wife replied, "Good bye, my love. I don't etpect to
see von any chose." At this juncture the fore end of the ship
pitched under water, aLd washed off all on the quarter-deck
to the middle-deck. 'lite captain was heard to exclaim,
" Take care of my wife, boatswain • ; to which the boatswain
prnmisi •' I oil, captain if she goes I will go with her."
the fate of all a-as now Bean to be near. "Mercy, mercy,"
was Imploringly called for by tin so in the water, and an iu-
Went of a touching nature occurred. A father and two of
Ws Bona met to4ether in the water. The elder son faintly
said, " Let me kiss you, father, for my Ittet, for we all shall
be drowned." Both sons eventually kissed their parent, and
were then a acted away. litown's task n.ia- commenced, and
before he had "struck out' (urine fishing smack he was
pulled down by• woman, who autreated him to "take me
and my baby on yourback anti save us." Thia, however, was
impossible, and the mother and chill perished. Brown con-
tinued his course in the direction of the smack. lie had swum
for about baits mile, and so strong was the wind that the
fishing boat made a decided tack, which rendered his efforts
in that ditection uselees. Be hail accomplished nearly three
miles lu a sea that dashed him to and fro, up and done,
when he came near the Ciqf el le HAM) stem Vox, from
which ropes were thrown. lio renamed the test, arid a life-
buoy was then thrown to him, the rope a hich he placed
round his vrrist becoming entangled with the chain at the
site of the paddle-wheel. Thom. on the tog commenced
pulling the rope to draw hint in: Brown held up both hands
In thankfulness, and having been got on imard lay in an ea-
handed condition hr ten minutes on deck, and was after-
wards remove I Into the cabin, where he slept till the leg
reached Dover. Brown was the Bret to reach the tug.

Lloyd's afoot la Dover tells • very painfnl story in connec-
tion w.th the recovery of the body of Mr. Breed. A man
and svonian, evidently in very poor circumstances, hearing
in Lmnion th t the b icy of it 'ming RIEIII I at IVOR brought
ash,,re. came down from Lon lust on Sarrirdag. and whined to
know how Ni. yonuld,gek In Lyrid, as they thought that the
corpse night he that ,pf their son, who WAS about 21 years of
age. They web c told, however, that it would be useless for
them to go to Lydd, as the rema'ns had been Identifb d a.
More of Mr. Brand, and whh some difficulty they were £,r
vatted upon to return to town.

No slight Interest Is now attached to the diving operations
which are to be carried on at the scene of the wreck of the
Northfiert. Her cum which is worth five welsh( thousand
pounos, has fortunately not glinted anti the vessel remains
as yet in an upright position. The agents in Dover for the
owners of the 'read, Iwo completed areanpeniente with the
owners of Vim three crack diving cutters—namely, the
Prosperoo.r, belonging t, Mr. (tann, of Whitst Able the
Edith A note, the chief of who,c crew is Pro it, whii has this
reputation of being one of the hest divers in the world and
the Star, which Wunder the command of W. El. boll, went
down to DutiLieness in order to make a preliminary survey of
the wreek.—ln eiinnection nPh t ire, diver., a our) pleadutt
incident, it. ita.thitaieling if. Its. 011ie 11:1,1104tUrt,, may
he mentioned. 'Die poor widow of Captain Knowles, velum
told by her tatialesad t . dress arid come on deck
hal hardly time to obey him, and, when she was
landed In Lover, had nothing but what she were and
her wedding ring and keeper. Her jewellery was lit a small
box In the captain's cabin, and the box also contained a
portrait of her husband, arid all the presents he had made
her In her courtship. This box Mrs. Knowles livery allibOAll
to obtain, if pnwible, and her whites being made known to
one of the divers, he at once add that his first at siren lie
cot into his iliviliviress would be to enter the cabin and
find it for lier.

The interest which has been taktn in the unfortunate
orphan Marla Taplln, is of the must extraordinary kind
More than ISO letters have been received from various Mitt.
tutions Or priVite Individuals off-sing to receive the child
and Mingher op. The poor little girl, howtv,r, left Dover,
in the care of Mrs. Knowles, for the semblance of a married
sister, the wife of a labousing man, living at Holloway.
These are persona in very humble circumstances, and the
sister Is anxious to retain charge of the poor little girl.
Mr. Forster, has, however, received a letter frills her ea.
rimming her deep and sincere gratitu le for the kindness
shown to her little orphan sister. She would like to keep
her altogether, but feels that it would be doing an injustice
to her future prospects to do so, should ally means of better
provision be offered. Among other letters is one from Lady
Pigot, who, it will be remembered, did each good servioe to
the sick and wounded during the Franco-Prussian war, and
she offers to educate and provide her with the means of
earning an honest living according to her capabilities and
character. The Daily Teltyraph publishes the following
totter—" Will you kindly insert the following? if the little
Taplin, that lost father, mother, and two sisters In the
sad disaster of the Nortkßeet. should be loft witliont rela-
tions to take charge of her, I ain willing to adopt her as my
own. I have myself [mitered shipwreck twice, therebylosing
my first wife and one child (drowned) and one for want of
water, being myself fifteen days without the same, I have
my second wile. no children, but one niece, also an orphan.
—Yours truly, A.M. B. II."

The circumstances surrounding the ehild, Maria 'Cajo-
ling, saved from the crock of the Nora/feet, are peculiarly
diatressiug. The family on board consisted of her father,
mother, twin silt, r, eleven years old, and an old, r sister of
thirteen. A married sister mid her husband, with whom the
child Is now living, would have accompanied the family in
the ill-fated ship but I,r the approaching confinoment of the
former, which event took place lest Monday. Maria
says she was in bed asleep with her mother and
udders when the crash occurred. Mrs. Tapling told
her children to dress as quickly as possible. They
had time to fully dress themselves, and endeavoured
to go on deck with the other women, but ell of
them were ordered below, and remained there
some time, until they received fresh orders to go on deck.
The time below was spent hi prayer. At length the 'raiding
family johed Nir. Tooling en deck. lie placed Marla in one
of the hoats. bit ovas obliged to remove her until the boat
was lowered into the water Ile then replaced her in the
boat, and went to fetch the remaiuder of Lis family, but
before his return the boat was rut adrift, an i Maria saw
nothing more of her reiatlves Marla and her twin•sister
were in the habit of attending the Sunday school at Brook-
read, in connection with the Congregational dhureti at
Junetioniroad, Upper Holloway, Lonlon, and on Sunday
fortnight they came to the evening service for adults and
begged tube admitted, as they were about to leave for New
Zealand. they were gladly welcomed, Mkt the service
spi Melly ade pied to their case. Last suede," evening Masts
attended the merles at the same place, when a v.dy torichil g
scene was witnessed Ifer schoolfellows 1,14 hltterly. and
all of them eioleavoured to manifest their sympathy for to
hy some trifflug present. The hops shook her by the hand,
and the girls kissed her as they parsed out. Ohs will remain
wills her married sister a short dine, and will then
either be removed to the llaverstock hill Orphan School—a,
home in this excellent inatitutien having bowl offered to
her —or S. be adopted by moose ladlec—Run and Central
Pre..

The man, John Dixon, who was acting as engineer on
board the 117,,rtktlect—and was fearfully injured on the
night of the collision, still lien in the Seamen's Hos-
pital ; he is progressing favourably, and the doctors
are sanguine as to his recovery. rhe poor fellow,
however, is in much a state of mental anguish in conse-
quence of the loss of his wife and children, that his re-
covery appeard to him a matter of fndiderence. He is
a fine stalwart fellow, als ot forty years of age. He
has made the following statement ac to the eircrum
stances under which he j Aired the ship's company,
which are in themselves somewhat remarkable, and of
the incidents attending the collision:—

I j Acted the Northfieet this day fortnight 'Woodsy, the
13th). When I got to Gravesend, in conssuptence of the
engineer who had been engaged for the condendng engine
/ailing to turn up, although he bad received his MLIVII,CO
muney,.l was employed to work it in his place. I was going
out to Ctlsll33lJia, with my wife anti two children, to be ton:
ploy ed as an engintedriver en the Tasmanian Railway I bed
been a dilver on the North London Railway two }ears sod
six months I had been two yore, and a half on the
Great Eastern Railway ; before that hi the East Indies,
where I remained for two years employed In that capacity.
Altogether I have been an engine driver far twenty years,
ten of which I spent on the Cale.h.nuie Railway, in Scot-
land, under Mr. Sinclair My wife and two little girls went
on board with me. The youngest child we, about eleven
months old and the eldest a little over two year. On the
night .if the wreck I went to bed at 111 nearly half-peat nine
as poseible. We occopiel the married couple quarters, and
my sell and family had one beck for ourselves, lhe hunk
svas a large ore, the lights were riot out in that pl tee, sad
I think I had turned to, nearly as I Call remember, about all
hour, when I heard a loud crash. We were lying la theater.
board idle of the sh p The collision took place on the other
side, but I heart the robe perfectly well. I thought that ill
went on deok, lehogid only be addhig to the general eon.
fusion, so I remained below a little titre. I told my wife
not to be frightened, and to keep quiet ; but after a time,
in conuquence of the cries on deck, I went up to see if
there was re lily any danger, and I was alarmed to find, on
getting on deck, that the vessel was sinking fast I there-
fore returned to our bunk, and told my wife to dress herself,
and wrap the children up in a shawl. She very quickly did
so, and returned with me to the deck. I assisted her on to
the poop, and placed my arms around her. She had both the
children in her arms, so that I was in reality supporting
them t all. I don't think I had been on the poop more
hati, minute when the ship seemed to have so suck that
thoop was on a level with the water. It was very rough,
and a wave suddenly struck me, and jammed me between
tile cabin apauson and the front of the poop, at the same

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...w that a... we &immune.' the committee, by, an unanimous '.
lees I goemyeelf clear of that I stiol;l4 bemire-id go olown, al- —.._. ~ halved telieetetheiltdroetveerettotetthh.etea J:heh,f,e,aililyse I,..rster
though lam a very griod swimmer. I was in the mlitillp of a with manydex\pres I
number Oil poor people who were drowning. iblue
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sight, for they were dragging each other diotwwfasa tri,i7
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."1"1,3,, tlat...i able at premed to form au idea as to the amount of money
re ja,culuant aI, h elle ell the d thei Tel thins The w consisted
WM about crew an rre • res. e ere
in a pewit iOll to give some informs-
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Ailawisarble.duiplatt,ii,esdhilie,trn,,e4lattehoankifteste.r..4.a ietiewiritel :et i!,.3.seatr.iyehtoerebes,:'iodlieh,leh.thil.
American, and two coloured men from Jessica. Of 1
bat di seemed two or three hoar.. We wore totted
iiiltlt. There e wt:mretilleee•de itithleetres
lupie.enttite,.etttoimewciftotehge,
Di.,poe.r,7l:l,utt,,,wl,l,i,itaiSozvenriejsr.ftelL:ulitts,:ce:=- .
these le had b- en saved, of whew only two were British sun •'
about by the waves, which It-pt washing over us.
jects. Tire widow of the chief mate, Mr. Gtoack, who lived
Still we cent:tired to hole on to the hoar, with tLe ta-
ke WM We'
uffl"faiieff" d l et In niy bold the eTri. st 15 years of age and the young( st time, aid that they '
celiMou of two, who were e adreAr ea. TheettietLor
itt.o.three LellereotowttlathetyFireri.aihnhet.etir.Deutandttgee,,thnedt
ewhreitheendthoeteheehtl,harei,:hu .
f London hut. dw T manage p T a
erring eewathat L. nilon was aethig so,tittot lei
the
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Iris.; I rittwievery kindly Opted ou hoard the steamer, aud aurd she fe t deeply touched with the ex,.,
't'tf., febvest.':rlatills:l7lfati fat I ilill°,-"A 'Yt
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•L rd Mayor. IMr,
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smi neer: lath:net it.o litre
gaifeit.'o'irti 'lll' 7thoeurTehriefigtedrirMitive4 pla"l'ill'e'dtht3h.. at Mrs. Gloack woid4l have received.,
an'. .),,e.
Mn. Cook, Die matron of the le.spital, who viii, Mani, at tope:ol.4a month, that beinghalfl
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f'"'""',B pay,
the' taniatf
the f..oe et the bed) M. deme everything in leer power to help tbe firm would at once send her the anemet hui
me. Imeitetah'haeidito„tm,
he,nttt n,oote.famiTtalye,,eacruidildthntattee.,,,G.
htilt.dß'alytttne,ehtaedd .
The I ,onclou Correspondent of the Ririnittegua News
Writes:— :Len' ttr.., hAele'rha'ndwereellitei'pPli'e'ne, 'elas'eumma3rrial'eileinsti ireftairbu7lrierte.
nose, and his wife lived at Fraserburgh. The el.tor, Mr.
For more than seven years, Captain Oates Iran. he tell. me, Kende was, os the firm underdood, a single man, but they
been fretting and fuming in the tolls which the 7 ichborne had written to his relefivestn Pomerania to make Inquiries.
case cast ermined him, as being an important witness against The steward was a Chinaman, and he had left a mother
the 1:11ablialle. Captain Gate. Is the only mail living who Saw living at Canton ; and the relatives of the two cooks resided
Roger Tichborne safe on hoard the Beint at Rio, bound for at St. John's mid Marinette respectively. There were two
New Voris, and ire was subvetiaed by the counsel for the i midshipmen drowned in the ship, one of them being a
rem heir Newts as the claim 'if the popularly esteemed Sir brother-in-law of an owner. As to the rest of the crew,
linger was put in. When the Nertlytet t was reedy for sea, letters of inquiry had been addressed to the relatives.
Captain thitia secretly (eared detention, hut as he had already The committee viol, for the relief of their immediate
made a ilepositien, which was in Om hands of the lea hug wants. ZIA to Mrs. Oloack, the widow of the first mate, and
counsel for the prosecution, input a bold face on matters her family, and 45 each to the widows of pecentk mate and
and went on with Ids pniparations for the voyage, as if no carpenter. It was in derstood that in any else where the
motives, were harming over his heed. When the lawyers widow of. member of the crew had received an allotment
heard that the North.lieet was about to sail they Intimated note the owners were prepared, under the circumstances to
Le Captain Oates that he ass " wanted" In April, and most mull It.
not sail under heavy penalties "Fineme £2OO er £9OO if The committee had next under consideration the very
you like," said Captain Oates; •• hut I must sail in the deplorable case of Amos Raynor, a poor man at Battersea,
Nortlytert nu Saturday next." ' No," said Mr. Hawkins, I aloes two sons, one with n wife and two children and the
we must have your body la court, and li you attempt to other single, perishtd in the aleck. His wife, in her old
nail,-you *tithe litrf tett" The Nerrthfiret we ato have sai led on age, had since died of grief, and her body was now await-
:Saturday. the lltli mist , and only em the previous Friday Mg burial. The committee voted i 5 towards the burial of
Captain states, from talon:unties: received so the shape,of the deceased woman, through the clergyman of the perish.
snielry L roildable inetritetimis of the 1 ew, said it eat impas-
sible for him to sail Aloe a batty cousultation with his lhe Lord Mayor said the next case was tic it of a daughter
brother owners (Captidn Oates had a share in the ship) It who had lest her father and neither and all the members of
was decided to give the command to Captain Knowles her family. She woo a domeatic servant, whohad elected to
who had salied with Captain Oct. for eve yeata. awl remain in England. Her name was Ahley. Mime was twenty
oI who ni • very MO opinion was held. All the "ie. years of age, and asked for some assistance towards providing
aortal effects of Haotain Ostes and Mrs Oates were moonlit% The committee voted the applicant .4:3.
tit, tl ie time on board the vesset, and were h silly removed to The next er se was that of a widow named Jervis, whose
give place to those ,d the new captelu and his bride. Mr. hnieband had been drowned. She had depended, with her
Knowles had he engaged for sinew thee to be marrietl, two children, ori his sending Mr money after he arrived at his
hut always said he would wait till he got • commend. The destinatim One of the children was two and shall, and
waiting was se long that about Christmas he determined to : the other one year old. The committee voted her £5.
tarry no longer, and here with leonderful good luck, sail op- As the committee was about to separate for the day Mr
peered Sr the poor fellow, a command unexm ctedly tumbled George Moore t,,dr occasi, unto say he hail reason to believe
into his hands, when he had been married only a few week.. , that many people were holding hack from subscribing to the
Lie and Mrs. Knowing gave up the apartments wh'eh the), fund under an impression that there might eventually Le a
had just taken and furnished, aiel,sati Wednesday went ales. surplus; hut, for Lis part, he thought the committee ought
Knowles joined the ship at Grave•end, Utile; up her reel. 1 to raise £5OOO or £6 0.0. (Ifear, hear.) He was convinced
deuce in thesuperior cabins, which Captain Oates hadspecially ' that in Lombardutreet and other wealthy parts If the city
fitted up for himselfandhia wife. The reatof the story the world there were many who would feel 'demure in subscribing if
knows; but there mesonre corieusincidents cmarcted with it they had any reliable data to go upon in reference to the
which Captain Oates has communicated to me, and whfeli have probable extent ef the calamity as it affected poor and
not yet teen mileished About seven years ago, Mr. Knowles dependent persons whose near relatives had perished in
being then chief officer, an emigrant ship outward bound ' the calamity.
from London was lying in the Downs, when his ship was run This siairment appeared to be endorsed by the whole corn.
Into by • steamer arid cut down to the waters edge. mittee, and the L--rd Mayor exyressed an opinion that only
Fortunately, assistance was at heed, and she IVoo towed i about half the money that was wanted had been subieribed.
back safely to London, and there underwent repairs. What tin the motion of Mr. William Dent, a sub,ommittee was
adds greatly 10th, rema•kable character of the coincidenoe poieted, coati/Ring of Mr. Alfred de Rothschild, Mr.
Is that George Brook, the pilot in ch•rge of the -Von/West ?entry Et wards. MP , Mr. George Moore, Mr..!. J. Vickers,
at the time of her being runs down, was also Me charge of the ISATIIII Albert Graut, Sir. R. S. Walker, Mr. William Dent,
other emigrant ship of which the hapless captain was chid Mr. Henry Greene, jun., and Captain J. 0. Johnston, with
mate, full power to deal with all eases of distress Coming under
their supervision.

p cr:TetulUl

The I'•rrespondent of the Daily Teirgraph writes :

w,*ild

_
Leteu, Tuesday Night.
Up to four p.m this evs nine the topmasti and topgallant-
masts of the 11l fated :V orthdeet were sticking up sharp and
solitary against the boric uri. Though advised from half.ae
dozen dittereut sources that not only haul the arrangements
with the famous Whitstable divers been completed, hut
that four of the smacks or cutters had actually left
Dover last evening for the scene of the disaster, they have
failed as set t I put in an appearance in the east
bay of Dungeness. At b it it is a dangerous occupation,
and the risk is vastly increased when there is meek move-
ment in the water; while the sharp frost which has con-
tinued here throueh the day must very much diminish the
tine that a man can remain wider water. The divers do net
require to roma here to keow precisely the state of the
weather, and it is probable that, knowing they could not do
much here as. pr. sent, they are 'teeing where they are safer
and more comfortable than they would be in the s pen road-
stead at Dangenees with a fresh easterly wind. It Is
somewhat Ode owing to walk along the sands of the east bay
at low water, and sea the skeletons of many a gallant craft
embedded in their lest resting place, a few water !sodden
barnacle-incrusted timbers alone resembling to tell the story
of loss Tying en the beach, in Ironed? smog little
pnbiuo-
base, singularly seggestive of the famous ° Peggotty "
residence at Yanssoulh, kept luy an old couple fast
verging on threeseere and ten, but who are still, thanks
to the invigorating atmosphere of the place, hale,
active, and cheery, the husband as floe a sped nen of an
English boatman as one need sea, there is a portion of the
mast of the ill-fated Electra, which was totally lost elf Dun-
geness net long ago. Her fate illustrates the risk which ao-
campaules diving, for whsle engaged in recovering her valet-
able cargo from thirteen fathoms. the air supply pipe of one
of the divers Mint, end the pou.l fellow lout his life before
Ifie comrades on the eurfaccheelme aware it the disaster.
This vessel, and many a score of other', lie in too deep
water to be visub'e at the lowest tides ; but moot are
seen, and the beachmen point out the Females of
a Guernsey craft called the Beinda, the Spindrift, Austra-
lian clipper, sod the clipper Rhoda, a blulf-howed old craft
like a collier, with • French slop close by, an American
etito called the Matoka, mud ca Plymouth ship, the Jane
Mary, just at the end of No. 2 tietteuy. In all these cases
the crews were saved. Of one of the rereatly wrecked
vessels—the tfornitig Mar, a Guernsey vessel, from Loudon
to Trinidad, with a general cargo- a mast Is still standing
above water at aU times of the tide, a melancholy epectecle,
Imtmethe noontime • usel sidemen to kelp anal craft from
coming to grief sts the submerged weed. In connection with
seine of these rotting hulks there is a story of death as well
as disaster, de arfed now, alas ! hy the munitude of the
recent calamity. One of them, a Danish ship that was
wrecked three years ago, lost all her crew, as she was so old
anti rotten that she meet to pieces instantly, though,
nr de Is r flares" or &ouster signals, the coast.
guard were pooaring to revoke instant servo.. It. the
case ot a Norwegian brig called the Nem her crew
were raved by the rocket at paratua, except the
captain, who was unfortunately drowned when actually
in the breeches buoy, and ready to be hauled ashore,
his mune god fate being recorded on a tombstone in
Lydd Churchyard Flotsam and Jeteam of the most ghastly
character—from the wrests of the ertleeteet—will soon be
pletstiful enough, but at present only one more holy has
been discevered; and, if the nine-dm :if submersion theory
is correct, that may let be one of the passengers by the
Northfiret. (rue of the Trinity pilot cutters cruising in
West Bay on Sunday, saw something fl sating, which
proved to. be the body of a child of two y ears oil, a little
girl with dark brown hair and blue or grey eyes. The corpse
was lauded at No. 3 Gmstguarel Station. The churchwardens
of Todd having been advised of the discovery, the body
was brought up preparetery to burial. however correct
the nine days' the• ry may be, there can be no doubt shout
the duld being ene of the passengers of the Northdeet.
The pour little creature presented a meet natural appear-
ance, the chicks and lips retaining a healthy colour,
the teetures composed as In sleep, and the bands, though
sodden, clenched in the ordinary pouition of a child asleep.
What makes it uearly certain that it belonged to some of the
passengers of the Sorthdeet, Is the fact that ills dressed in
moler flmnel scud a nightgown, over which petticoat, stays,
and a little frock ot some dark brown material, had been
hastily fastened by the torlfied nether en the first alarm
of the awful fate that awaited them.

\Writing at a later hour on Tueaday night, the Cor-
respondent of the Daily Telegraph adds :
The body was it eating in the water, and there is some
reason to ledit ve that it was that of the eldest child of the
man Dixon, whose ii‘d story, as he related it to me
yesterday, was published this morning. As the condition
of toe poer fellow in still unsatisfactory, owing to the
intensity of his grief from the loss of his wife and
family, Le has not been informed of the recovery of the
corpse. A coastguardsman on duty between Dover
and Folkett me reports that he has picked ...up on the
shore to-day the body of a woman of anout forty years of
age, the fingers of one of whose hands held in the rigid
clutch of death a quantity of human hair—it may be that of
her child whom ehe was endeavouring to save when the
Northfleet went down. The body was covered by nothing but
a diem, sad a pair of boots were on the feet •, a wedding rhog
ends keeper were on one of the fingers of the left haul.
The coastguardsman, it in understood, has conveyed the
corpse to Folkestone.
In London, on Tuesday, a meeting of the commute formed
for the relief of the seldowascand orphans and other sufferers
by the dimeter eras held at the Mansion-house, under the
presidency of the Lord Mayor. lhere were present, among
other., Mr. Alfred de if .thsehild, Mr. George Moore, Mr.
Henry Edwards, M.P., Boron Albert Grant, Mr. William
Dent, the Rev. Canon Harvey, Mr J. J. Vickers, of the then
of MOWS. Patton and Co., the owners of the Vortadeet
Mr. Edwin Clark, one of the contractors: Captain J. Gilbert
Johnetoh, Mr. Maury Gra., jun., Ole A J. Waterlow, Mr.
J. standish Haley, Mr. Hebert S. Walker, and Mr. J. 11.
Davison, the hon. secretary.
The Lord Mayor stated that he had received a letter froen
the Rev. Mr. Herring, • member of the committee, who
was absent that day, to the effect that he end Cipteln
Oates had been to the Board of Trade and ascertained that
there was no Government reward for the ending of dead
boae, at sea. The reward of 10e. which the committee
offered would, therefore, greatly aid Week sympethetle efforts
on behalf of the relatives, though he thought there ought
to to no erieJurarenmnt given to go die,, to blehtify tie
corpses. The Board of Trade intended to present Mrs.
Knowles, the eantain's widow, with a handsome teatimenial
(not pecuidary) in recognition of the heroic services of Ivor
lousnoand, mid they would take core also to reward all those
noble men who so gallantly rescued the survivor, The Queen
was intensely intereeted in the sad affair. The shies carpen-
ter, is Lurie sad was, was, he heard, only
married a few days More the ship started The more they
went into the porticuloos of the disaster the wore human
misery they discovered, and, therefore, the mere tho y ought
Weak thereuhlie to aid th m in sonic degree to alleviate the
sufferings of the distressed people.

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Mr. Vickers read a letter addressed by Mn. Knowles, the
wife of the captain, undfd date of Monday last, to Nir.
Patton, one of the owners orthe vessel, in which she said
" Many thanks for your kind letter, received to day. As I
Mn felling slightly better I preferred answering it myself I
have In some wan hurt my side and ant feeling very weak In
couseimenee I ideas you urgently wish to see me at Otlee, I
should prefer leaving our interview until the end of this or
the beginning id bent week.. My uncle would see you on any
business transactions aunt would call upon Non any time )ou
wished. I sincerely trust the body of my dear husband will
soon be found. It ha great comfort to too to know how
highly he was esteemed hy all who knew hint Again thank-
ing you fur your kind offers, I remain sincerely yours,
.FREDXXICA.KSUNI'LLS."
The Lord Mayor was authorised by the committee to corn
municate with Mrs. Knowles.
Mr. Markham, an uacle of Mrs. Knowles, speaking with
mmilt emotion, told the committee he had brought her up,
and she eon married front his house. Site bait lost every-
thing, except • trifle from a little 'muss property that
belonged to his father. Her share would Amount to about
£4l or 00 a year. Her sr, he sled, was 24, sad she wee
married on the 4th of De ember last, Berm, weeks to a day
before the disaster, at tit. Mary's Church, Newington.
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The Lori Mayor &mired Mr. Markham the committe,
were p'eased to see him, and het:ged hint t • Inform Mrs
Knowles that her cute would be wall considered by them,
and that they Would grant her snub material support as
misfit tend to console her to some extent for the loss she
bad sustaiaed. Meanwhile, if there was any commubteation
she rulalm wish to make to them it should receive their best
attention.

As nt pi evions meetings of the committee, there were many
ardent applie.ationsfrom benevolent pardons in Ike metropol
All 4 hi various parts of the country &a adript and maintain
the orphen child, Marla Tsplln : one In particular was an
offer made by hue, Forster, slater of the Belgian Consul at
Darer, who attended before the committee personally
to in ike it. It may be remembered the unfortunate
child was Conveyed direct to the home of the Ile'glan
Consul on the memorable night of the disaster. mid re.
reamed there during several days and nights, her tender
, age, her friendless end destitute condition, and her in-
expressible grief exciting c mmiseration far and near
Alias Forster said her brother, the Consul, and she were
now desirous of adopting the child and bringing it up, w ith
the sanction of the committee and of any relatives it might
have. Nothing could exceed the eagerneu of the young
Icily to retain possession of the child. Her application and
the manner of making it were quite touching, and it was

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