The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

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MAILS ARRlVED.—llublin, 3; Waterford, 2; Douagha-
dce, 1 French, 1; Flanders, 1.
LONDON, July 4.—Wind thiri day at noon, N.N.W.,
moderate breeze, and dull hazy weather.
WATERFORD, July 2.—Variable. Arrived : Margaret
Hugg, Baltimore. Sailed: let, Cunningham, Havana.
SWANSEA, July 2.—Sailed: Ellen Simpson, Cuba.
NEWPORT, July 3.—N.W.—Sailed: Aliwal, and Colum-
bian, Ascension ; Equity, Boston.
lareaxatruttto, July I.—The Janete and Ann or Brid-
lington, while lying in the road., swung • leak, and after-
wards went down inside the harbour.
BRISTOL, J nly 3.—W.N.W.—Arrived : Thomas Knight,
Mauritius; Competitor, Wallace,: N.S. ; Mearns, Quebec.
Sailed : Catherine, Beaten.

TOTAL WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT Sntr.—A Mast
shocking loss of an emigrant ship, with upwards of 100 per-
-1101/3 on board, was reported at Lloyd's on Saturday. The
vessel tnat met with the sad disaster was the b..rive Com-
rce, belonging to Limerick, 267 tons burden, Captain
Halliday, master. She sailed, it appears, from Galway, in
the early part of the spring, for St. John's, New Brunswick,
and was perfectly tit for the voyage. About 70 families,
principally women and children, embarked on board at Gal-
wey, taking with them everything they possessed in the world.
The deplorable catastrophe happened on the 24th of May.
The master was aware that they were near the Nova Scotia
coast, but the prevalence of foggy weather and drizzling rain
prevented the exact position of the ship being known. A
good look-oat is stated to have been kept. Be that as it
may, however, she ran ashore, the first intimation of the fact
being her striking heavily on a rack. A strong effort was
made to back her, but a strong current carried her over the
rock, and she was swept with violence on to a bold rocky
shore. The emigrants mustered no deck in great confusien ;
the whole of them were in their bed-clothes, and their
horror on discovering the awful situation of the ship may
be easily conceived. For a few hours the ship remained in
an upright position. As the tide rose, however, a gale
sprang up, the sea from which swept the decks. The
boats had been lowered, and some of the crew succeeded in
ascertaining that the shore was accessible to land the pas-
sengers. They returned and made two trips between the
ship and the land with passengers, but on attempting the
third they were driven sgainst the rocks, and many of the
poor creatures met with a watery grave. The ve.'el, by the
continued beating on the rocks, soon filled. The waste
were cut away, and other means to save her from destruc-
tion were adopted, but of no avail, as her loss was complete.
In the meantime the remainder of the crew contrived to
effect a communication with the shore by a line. One after
another of the emigrants were dragged through the surf to
the shore in a most pitiable condition. Many, we regret to
sly, were drowned, particularly the children. Between 70
and 80 were saved, as also the crew. The following are the
names of some of the sufferers Mrs. Mary Burke and
child, Mrs. Coyee and infant, l'atrick ('orcoran, aged 21, a
boy named Fogant, and a lad, John Leyden. A large num-
ber of the passengers had nothing on but their night clothes
when they landed, some even perfectly naked. They were
unable to save anything of their little property from the
wreck. Captain Halliday acted with great firmness through.
out the trying period. The wreck quickly broke up, with
all she contained. She was partly insured.