The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'clock.
We yesterday gave a brief account of a melancholy
low of life, by shipwreck, on the coast of Scotland.
The following particalars have since reached us :
The Exmouth, of 320 tons, Wee Booth, of Sunderland,
master, sailed front Londonderry, for Quebec, betw,en three
and four o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the 25th vit.,
with a light south-west breeze. She had a crew of ash
asap, and about 240 emigrants, consisting principally
[w farmers and tradmmen, with their fainilies
wen also three cabin passengers, young unmarried ladles ef
the middle class, two of them sisters, on their way to jai
relatives at St. John's, New Brunswick.
The ship' oat sight of the loom of the land about Art
o'clock no Sunday afternoon. The breeze, which had hem
light in the morning, increased to a gale during the day, meil
about eleven p.m., it came in terrific squalls, accompanied's.,
heavy torrents of rain. They then furled the lore and main
sails. The wind, which had been westward at first, veered''
Northerly, and the storm increased in violence, which blew
the two topsails from the bolt ropes. Toe crew then set the
fere-sail and spanker, and commenced to bend two other
topuih, which they furled ; but about three in the morning
they trete blown from the gaskets. Previous to this the
jib had been stowed, the larboard tacks on hoard, and the
ship war now driving to the southward and eastward. The
muter did not stand to the westwaid when the wind became
northerly, and was in the hope of reaching some harbour of
refuge, where be might repairdamsges sod replace sails.
Shortly after this, on Monday forenoon, the lung boat was
unshipped from the chocks, by the force of the seas which sue-
thinly broke over the vessel, and in the course of the same
hernoon, the bulwarks were stove in, and the life bast washed
away. Toe gale continued with the same violence =
thstwhole of Monday night; and on Tuesday, the m
after being faded, was torn from the [theta by the stoma
While the crew were setting the foresail it was blown from
the bolt rope., and the tryaail-mast was unshipped, and the
main-gaff carried away, which rendered tlom unable to wry
the spanker.
About II o'clock on Tuesday night, land end a light wen
seen on the starboard quarter, which Captain Booth at Scat
took to be the light on the Island of Tory, off the north-
west coast of Ireland, and in the belief that he had ample
esa-room in the course be was steering, he bore along. As
he drifti.4 near the land, however, and observed that the
light was a flashing, instead of a stationary one, he became
rensaions of his error and dangerous position, and made
way effort to repair it by bringing the ship farther to the
northward and westward; and, with the view of " clawing "
her off the land, the maintopsail and the fore-topmast
stay-ail were set, end the jib half-hoisted. The ef-
fort, however, was an ineffectual one ; the ship moon
got amongst the broken water, and at halt-past
twelve o'clock on Wednesday morning was dashed amongst
the rocks. If the above be a correct version of the impres
dam on the captain's mind as to his position; the result
shows that he must have been fully a hundred miles out of
his reckoning. The light seen was really that of Omar, or
Overlay, on the point of the Rhinns, or Runs, of Islay, to
the north-west of the entrance of Lochindaul ; and the land'
men, and on which the brig eventually struck, was the western
part of the iron-bound coast of the island. She went ashore
with the above sails set, and after *tilling once, was dashed
broadside on the rocks, which rose to the height of the mast-
head. She struck violently against the rocks three times, and
at the fourth shock the mainmast went by the board, and fell
Into& chasm of the rock. An hour sod a half previously, when
Captain Booth observed his dangerous proximity to the
shore, he took his station in the maintop, that he might
=ilj4ly keep a look-out and see how the land bore, and
us place he occasionally gave his orders to the crew. As
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as the brig struck, John Cleat, the mate, and all the wa-
sh" eight in number, joined the captain in the maintop,
having the captain's son, a youth of about 15 years of
age, asleep in his cod below. After remaining in the mar
Sep about three huh, au of the crew went down he the
of esemoding the brattep, thinking that they weuM
Cu a better dune' of rind( the shore from use pert
of the ship. At the setae time one of the crewa,.._...aemeed
John Scott, went est apes the main , with a
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these esesera, Jeln illesesee, William . and Omar
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eflattst, was thrown Me a rib se Arm of the reek, and
simmedistely afterwards Ceulthard, then Lightfoot', and
Stevens, scrambled up the topmost rigging, sod eir
a footing on the crags. The swain woe alma le
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to the reek, but they were enabled to mal their
• and when they looked round, after the sea lied re-
eked, they hand that the captain and all were game, las
atalamest had been broken into splinters by the andk
maids& with the rocks, and the retiring wave had sat
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