The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-06 00:00:00

CIIA 1W E.

-1,6719,1i1
1,557,610
2,164,133
961,301
136,000
10,e00
9,227
16,605
79,793
66,613

Z 12,923,475

4,113,777
3,031,201
2,619,697
2,054,730
1,033,240
196,000
40,000
70,146
26,637
61,916
170,641

11,43‘,001

FUND,

THE LOSS OF THE CHARLES BARTLETT.

NARRATIVE OF • PASSZNOSR IY SRI EUROPA.
The Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane &vie',
having presented to Mr R. B. Forbes, of Beaton, United
States, a gold medal for his tousoge and humanity in leap-
ing (eve, booed from the Europa on the occasion of the late
fatal collision, Mr. Forbes has acknowledged the compliment
in the following interesting account of the aceidest :
" To George Johnston, 800 , Chairman of the Liverpool
S -ipwreck and Humane S ciety.
" Sir,—ln re urning you my thanks for the medal of your
society, which I reetire as a token of your kind regard
rather than as a reward earned by me, it may not be out
of place to narrate brie fly the ci•cuenstances of the wreck of
the Charles Bartlett, Captain W. Bartlett, of Plymouth,
United States, on the 27th ultimo, so far as my own expe-
rience enabled me to judge of the facts.
" At two o'clock of the day named, not being well, I retired
to my state room, in the forward cabin, and lay d.wo with
my clothes on, on the settee, and soon fell asleep. 1 was sud-
denly awakened by a crash and a shock which I could not
misunderstand. I rushed upon deck, and to the port bow of
our ship, where the most appalling spectacle presented itself;
the how of our ship appeared to be half way. through the
bark, having entered her just abaft the main rigging, on the
p...rt aide. She had all sail set; one glance at the ill fated
bark satisfied me that she must instantly go down, and that
no earthly power could save many of the passengers. The
after hatches were obstructed by pieces of broken timbers;
the main hatch was raj-lily clear, and appeared to be filled
with women and children, vainly endeavouring to get on
deck. I should judge that the ladder had been knocked
down in the general crush. The water at this
time was rushing into the vessel like a mill race.
Seeing that the only chance to Save any was to lower
our boats, I rushed alt, taking off my over-coat and my
frock tot as I went slug, on my way, and when near the
aPer part of the port paddle-box, I perceived that men were
air ady clearing away the quarter boat'. I stopped to en-
deavour to clear away ths lite-boat, but being alone, and
having nothing but a small knife to cut the lashings, I saw
that my efforts would not avail in time. Just as I was aban-
doning the effort, I perceived a woman and a child, the
letter a one tea feet from the woman, floating slowly past
the paddle-box. I immediately jumped down on the gracing
or asonson abaft the wheel, crying to the many spectators
about the main-rigging for a rope ; For God's sake give me
a rope! But every one seemed stunned and paralystd by
the sudden and awful scene. A man came fl rating along
alive and partially enstained by a brcken spar, the only rope
thrown over, which I should otherwise have got, was thrown
to tom; he got had of it, and put the nor se over hie
shoulders, anti was hauled up. The first part of this
act, f c the moment, took off our attention from the
two floating and apparently insensible persons before
al:uded to, so that by the time the man was safe, the others
had .rank too far to be reached. As the sails on the main
man: had not been backed,and the wind wawa the starboard
quarter, the ship forged ahead end to leeward, at the rate of
one to one and a half knots. Suppaing that the wrecked
matter must be to starboard, I jumped on deck, and passed
insmedia.ely overto the sterb. and pad le-box, aslow down on
the spons,,n a. I could get, and gust in time to see a very
stout man drifting *long, partly face down, and near the top
of the water. Several persons were collected on the rail
about the main shrouds, to whom I called loudly for a rope,
owe was thrown over. about 10 or 20 feet abaft me ; I *or tmbled
quickly along the side, and seising the rope, jumped for the
drowning man. The rope was rather short, but luckily the
ship, not being steadied by the wheels, rolled towards me; I
took advantage of this, and got the rope round the man's body,
and the end up, and twice passed round its own part, before
the ship rolled to port again ; as I was with the man partly
under water, and the time very short, this required a great
effort. As the ship rolled to port she j.rked us both to the side
rather rudely; I cried haul up, haul up;' hut it appeared,
on subsequent examination, that the rope I had used we. the
main sheet, a fear-inch cone, and that the upper tad was fast
by a moused hook to the shit's ride, several wet below the
gunwale, and at least eight feet below the upper or monkey
rail. The effect of all this, and the continued rating of the
steamer, was to drag me and my man out of water,
and strain suddenly immerse us. I could do nothing but
cry ' haul up,' and endeavour, at each roll in the water, to
shut my mouth in time, and to try to make the rope mere
secure, as it gave way a little every time we came out of
water. The man weighing at least 200, and myself 175
pounds, when dry, all of which was to be sup; mud by my
hands holding two round turns of a short end passed round
its own part, and slipping at each ascension! Finally,
some hands suconeed in getting hold dour rope, and hauled
no up, so that my burden and myself wore above the water,
or nearly so. At this time 1 called to one of the patty
to ease down and help me to jamb the tuns, s the man was
gradually slipping, in coorequence of my ergot being par-
tially on him. The individual, mistaking toy order, put hie
foot on my hands, and on the turns and bearing down,
caused the man to slip out and go down undrao crd the
second time, sad apparently quite lifel es I ordered the
rope Igt ao, and went again far under, but did not re ash the
body. Being now nearly exhausted, I thought it thee to
take are of myself, and took advantage of a boat which
came to my relief. I got into her, and t Lek the bow oar,
the officer (the fourth mate, I thick) putting her bead to
wards the pieces of floating wreck. We soon discovered two
persons. The first 1 had the pleasure of reaching with a
bast-hook, hauled him up on board, and the Alter imme-
diately went to work on him, reporting signs of life. The
other person sank out of sight while we were getting the
int on board.
" We continued to pull round among the wreck until
there appeared no chance of saving any more, and some
danger of losing those we had saved, unless proper means
were used ; it being very foggy. and the ship nearly out of
sight, we unwillingly gave up the search for more, a-4 re.
turned on board.
"Several hours elapsed before the men hooked up was
brought round, so as to speak ; the other boat had, in the
meantime, picked up a number, and among them the man I
had been trying to save. All recovered, excepting this last
one. He had a wound on his head, and it was generally
supposed that he received a stunning blow at the time of the
oethsion.
" Although it has taken some time to write these de-
tails, oily one to one and a halt minutes elapsed from
the time I first jumped on deck until the ship went
down. I was on the port sponson ire than that time,
and on the other side suspended to the main,
perhaps altogether throe or four minutes more. Had
the poor woman exhibited any signs of life, or the child, I
could not have resisted the in.pulse to go over atter them,
without a rope or any support, and, being a poor swimmer,
I might have perished, amid the confusion and noise, before 1
any aid could have reached us.
" Had I done this, successfully or not, I should have coo-
aired that the risk was so imminent, that I should not
have felt any delicacy in receiving your award; as it is, I do '
not feel that I have earned it 'ay success or by any great risk.
Being s& active member and a trustee of the Massa-
chusetts Humane Society, and having been somewhat pro-
minently engaged in establi.hin; life-boats and other appa-
ratus on the coast of New England, I can the more fully
appreciate your kind motives in making me the recipient of
' your favours.
" I cannot close this subject without making, through
you, on earnest appeal to Ms Royal Mail Steam-ship Com-
pany, to provide further means to save life in case of such
accidents. I attribute no blame to Capt. Lott or to his 021-
eeril, but I think great praise might have been due to the
company if certain means had been adopted to guard against
sudden emergencies, as Are, allision, men falling over-
head, die.
" All sea-going steamers should have some means to make
skied noise very often, by a large bell, arranged to be
gawk at each torn of the crank—a steam whistle—the di--
'barge of a small gun, or some other means to give warning
in foggy weather. There should be life buoys or floats in
each boat, and at intervals along the bulwarks inside, ready
at all times to be thrown over. Life lines at several promi-
nent places should be suspended—say to the peddle-box
rails, the quarter nib, de. A strong and long painter
should be always ready to each boat, led along and made
fast to the paddle-boxes. The boats should not be so snugly
emend by coins, and there should be a hatchet to each
boat, so that the lashings may be readily cut.
" The ships known as the ' Cunard line' are exceedingly
well managed and well fitted, but it would be a libel—a
cruel libel on the intelligence of the proprietors and the
superintendents to say that they are perfect.
" Mart earnestly would I appeal to you to make interest
with this line of steamers, and with all companies within
our reach, who tee engaged in navigating the ooeaa, to
look a little lea to fancy decorations, and. a little more to the

Permanent Debt _
Terminable Annuities
Interest= Zuhequer BUY bond to meet Charge ca Consolidated Fund
Sinking Fund
The Civil List
Other Charges on the Coneolidated Find
For Advances

Total Clary .
The 3urptus

The amount c 4 Exchequer Bitle trued In mat the diem an the Carne.
'Mated Fond for the Qr. coded Sth Air., ISO, sad paid eat of the grow.
tug produce of UM. Fund for the Qr. soda I My, II

The Anvont blued In the Qr. ended fth July. 111114 le pert ef the tenni
anted by parliament out of ths Consaildsted llapiply
Th gre surplus of the Consolidated Taal tar the Qr. sided Rh July, 1549. Peruke..
The probable meant of Exchequer Bills malted to meet the charge on
dated Fund. Quarter ended lth July, late

1448:

,768,4116
360,628
1,461

ift,l47
X 15,585
131,111

7,096,140
3,077,7110

4,830,316
6,171,616
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50,06,336
5330;4
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429,2411
393,077

7,182,945
3,171,616

12,434.601

1106,025

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means of preserving the lives of the passengers and crews.—
I am, very respectlully, your obedient servant,
"R. B. FORBES."
Mr. Forbes is the gentleman who was the mean• of sendin r
to lrelar.d and the western Wands of Scstland an immense
supplyof provisions, of the Tillie of 60,0001. during the year
set famine.—Liverpool Times.

AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION MEEIING

On Wednesday a rather numerous meeting of pro-
teetionists of the coon•y of Notts took place at the Corn
Exchange, Newark, and was etterded by alma 600 land-
lords and tenant-farmers. W. H. BARROW, Esq., of South-
well, was in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN read a number of letters, amongst which
was one from the Duke of Newcastle, exhorting the farmers
to he firm in their opposition to free-trade, and to sti ice by
every constitutional means in their power to ga back pro-
tection.

Mr. GEORGE SToRER moved the first resolution, which
asserted the great distrees of the agricultural and other
classes, which was seconded by Mr. PARKINSON, of Hex-
g Park, and carried unanimously.
B. V. P. Botthoht., Esq proposed the second resolution,
"That the depression is owing entirely to recent legislative
enactments, which give the lightly taxed foreigner an
undue advantage over the heavily-taxed producer of this
country."
Mr. CROULER seconded the motion. He undertook to
prove that the depression complained of was owing to recent
legislation. To begin with the fountain of their calamities.
Tue repeal of the corn laws had taken 101. per quarter from
the price of wheat. The Tines in January had laid the low
price to the improvidence of the farmers in bringing a large
quantity of grain into the market toe early, and recom-
mended them to hold in. But what were they to do if they
•uld not ? (Cheers.) Be,ides, if they were not to thrash in
winter when their labour. re were not otherwise employed,
when were they ? And if they did not have their straw duly
converted into manure in the winter, how were they to raise
their succeeding crops? The introduction of foreign cattle
had mowed meat to fall Id. per pound, and had brought
three new diseases, the foot complaint, the lungs comp'aint,
and the small pox among sheep. (Hear, hear.) An eminent
sterin try surgeon had told him that the crowding of
animals togeth. r in the hold, or ou the deck of a chip, would
produce such dis a.cs, and that they wool b be communicated
to 'Ober; on landing. Thus the farmer, in addition to the
lowness of price, had been made to suffer heavy loses by the
sickness and death of his stock. The deficiency of the
revenue was under heads which best showed the state of the
country—under stamps, customs, excise, income tax, &a.
With respect to the last, he could only say that if the farmer
returned his income like the professional man, he would re-
turn nothing at all—(much lattahter)—but in point of fact,
he had to tiny Income tax upon his income. (Cheers )
With respect to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
statement about the Nottingham labourers being better off
on 10s. than on 125., he denied it altogether. The labourer
was much worse off, because he had less piecework. Before
his average earnings would be I Is. pr r week, now they
were lens than 12r. The railway labourers, too, were mime-
ably off ; they kept constantly coming to him to give the
leave to sleep in his outhouses. Look at the men by whom
these measure.' had bolo passed, with Sir Robert Peel at
their head. The only persons who had benefited by Sir R.
Peel's measures had been those with fixed money no-1
comes, namely, the servants of the state, whose
salaries had been thus practically raised. (Hear,
hear.) His (hit. Chouler's) remedies were of three
kiads-Ist under the head of general expenses; 2nd, ot
loci! burdens ; and 3rd, of rent. Ile was of 1
opinion that considerable saving might be effected in,
the expenditure of the country, not by reducing the army,
and navy, against which he pet tested, but by reducing the,
salaries of the state officer., in proportion to the greater
cheapness of !loiter, beginning with the highest, and going
down to the lowest excisemen. Under the second head he
did not expect, he was aoery to say, much relief from the di-
minution of the poor-rates, which he found, on the contrary,
would be much greaten ; but he thought somethicg might
be saved in the county and police Mos. In particular, he
thought the ruled police much toe highly paid for what they
As to rents, he did hope that tie c marl genienten
would come forward as a body and lower them; not
that he thought it would remove the distress, but it w•uld
alleviate it. If they did not, they would find that when the
farmer had exhausted all his other resources, he would draw
on the land itself, and they would have it returned to them
in an impoverished condition. He sail this more particu-
larly to the owners of poor and midd:ing soil.. At present
the landlords being able to keep their establishments wore
cheaply, would secretly think free trada not such a bad
thing after all, but that would be the result. (Hear, hear.
Lratly, with re.prct to free trade landlords. They might to
do one of two things—namely, either to come forward and
set an honourable example by ?wincing their rents in pros r-
tion to the depression of prices, or, secondly, to exhibit their
bo ka with respect to their own seient,fil fuming, so as to
show whether they really made any interest on th, it money,
or not. (Cheers.)
Other resolutions, pledging the meeting to support the re-
establishment of protective duties, were passed, and the
meeting broke up.

SPORTING.
NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.
BETTING ON WEDNESDAY.
CHESTERFIELD STAKE&
5 to 4 on Crantxtry.
GOODWOOD CUP.
9to 4 apt Cannon I 4to 1 art The Hero
GOODWOOD STAKES.
12 to 1 ant Maid of Mash= Il6to 1 opt Remembrance
13 1 Fire Eater 20 —1 Colliogwood (t:
—1 GioeUe _

DERBY.
A to 1 opt Pitaford (t) 30 to I apt Blarney
25 to I Penang SO I Nweetheart
23 1 Crocus (t) 33 1 Ghillie Calm (t;
30 1 Joint o'Grost (t)

DEBBY. 11151.
10,000 to 100 each laid apt Aflame, Imus, and Glenhawk.
The disputed race at Newcastle has been decided in Luau
of Miss Ann.
The Berl of Glasgow is the new steward in the room of
the Earl of liglintoo, whose term expires this meeting.
THURSDAY. .

_ .
HANDICAP SWIEPB. of 15 sou. each, 10 ft. To start at
the startmg• post of B.M. and run to the end of new T.Y.C. I
(7 ashes)
Lori Easter's Sultana, 3 yrs, fiat 131 b (E. Sharp) I
lord Clif&A's The Widow, seed 7st Alb (Paul) 2
Mr. BMWs Little Charley, S yrs. 3d 71b (0. Moan) 3
Col. Peel's TaftralL 4 yr., 711 t 71b (Flamm) 4
Mr. W. Arnull's The Lustram, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ,Chapple) 3
CIPUTIIIPIRLD &rakes of 30 son. each, 20 ft' for 2-s ?-
cid., ohs Satandfillies, est 41b. Last half of B.M,
(29 subs;
Sir 3. thembewy ............ (Teoplesuin) 1
CM Peers (Mullah) 2
Lard UAW& (Bartholomew) 3
Boeing ; 7 to 4 ea Cranberry. Csra took the lead, and
with Sisyphus, Cranberry, the Cowslip colt, and Jule in her
track, made strong meting to the hill; here elm wss joined
by thsyphus and Cranberry, and the trio raced home to-
gether, the far,,urite winning, by gameness, by a short head,
ahead between the second and third, LS Beau a bad fourth.
Run in 53 secs.
BWIMPEITAKIB of 10 son. each, for 3 yr-olds ; colts,
Set 91h ,• end fiiliee, Bst 61b. B.M. The winner in be mid
for 3001. if demanded ; if entered to be sold for 2001., allowed
7lts, i. for 1001. 151bs. (6 sots)
Mr. Drinkald's Susan Lovell (tool.), 7st slb . . ... .(IWhtey I
OA. Peers Quinine WWI, 7st 31b (carried reith).. (7. 3
Lord Ezeter'seced# (1001.), 7st Mb ((Pettit 3
Captain Lowther'. Pionio (1001.), 7st 310 ....... 4
Sir S. Spry's Halation (1001.), 7st Sib (Pearl 3
MATCH; 300, 100 ft. T.Y.C. —Mr. flandeotd's um-
phrey, Bst 7.b, sgst Lsed Strathmore's Hood, Set 21b, off by
consent
MATCH; 100, h ft. New T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's
Newp..rt, itet 211', received forfeit from Mr. Gerard eture•
Humphrey, 7.t 91h.
LATEST senuo ON THE GOODWOOD CUP.
9 to 4 apt Cannon I J a S apt Tadmor (t)
r 4 1 Hero (t)

EXTENSIVE Ronana.---Ye•terday morning infor-
mation war received by the p4lic, th4t the auction roon►r of
Kelm livishworth and Jarvis, Saville roe, Old Btrlengton-
street, had been buripirriously en erect, a•:d a larAe quantity
of silver plate, valuv.. at upwards of 5001., carried, oh by the
thieves.