The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-20 00:00:00

THE LOSS OP THE LONDON.

The It Morning News of yesterday says :
Details crop out coonectiogl the event with the West, as
with almost every part of England, in • way which shows
how wiJe-spread and terrible is the sorrow which the loss
of the vessel has caused. There are some alleviative inci-
dents also. We learn that • family consisting of twelve
persons, residing at Sancreed, new Penzance, had engaged
a passage in the Loudon, hos their sailing orders did not,
unfortunately as they esteemed it at the time, arrive
sufficiently early to allow of their joining the ship at
Plymouth ; they thus mimed the boat, and to that have to
attribute the fact that they are among the living. Mir
Batchelor, of Union-street, Steinhauer), made an application
for • passage in the London, bat was told that she was too
late —all the berths swore engaged. Unhappily for her,
however, one gentleman was persuaded not to proceed,
after he had arrived at Plymouth with the intention of
going ; and Captain Martin, who knew of Miss Batchelor's
anxiety to go out under his guidance, sent to her and offered
to her the relinquished cabin. She went, and her relatives
now deeply mourn what at the time was a nose of congra-
tulation. In the Londoniwere 1,200/. of drapery goods, for
• Mr. Rogers, • tradesman, of Melbourne, shipped by him
mother, • draper, of St. Austell. The goods fortunately
were insured. One of thefFassengers who have perished
was, we learn, the son of the organist of Exeter Cathedral ;
and two others, Mr. R. Reynolds and; Mr. W. H. Clifton,
were residents in Launceston. Mr. E. G. Trevenan and
Mr. B. Trevenan and Mr. J. Walla wire among the
Cornishmen on board. We have reason to believe that the
list of passengers published is not quite complete
or accurate, but no more perfect information is
attainable ; the owners, indeed, are even less
exactly informed concerning some of the name.
than ourselves. The booking having been effected
and changes made at the °hat moment, prevents an abso-
lutely trustworthy list being 'prepared, except on board,
especially as some of the passengers travelled under assumed
names. Thus, Mr. G. V. Brooke, the celebrated actor,
appears ti have entered as Mr. Vaughan. Dr. Woolley
was Bishop Woolley, on his way to occupy his see of
Sydney.
Amoogst the passengers who were drowned was Mr. A.
Sandilauds, a gentlemen connected with a well-known firm
at the West-end ; and it is not • little remarkable that he
had not long before sailed in the Duncan Dunbar, which
was destroyed at sea. The passengers on board that vessel
being afterwards transferred to a ship called the John
Duthie, Mr. Sandilanda again started on the same voyage ;
but finding that the weather promised to be extremely
unfavourable he left the vessel at Plymouth, and at length
obtained the consent of his family to embark on board the
London, and has consequently been lost.
A correspondent writiag from Hastings rays:—"Mr.Arthur
Tie-ehuret, the chief officer on board the illfated ship, was
• native of that town, and was much respected. As he
had only left the residence of his father, the Mayor (Mr.
Frederic Tioshurst), • few day% the fact lent additional
vividness to the melancholy tidings which arrived thereon
Wednesday, The feeling of the town was manifested at
the town council meeting yesterday afternoon, when the
Hon. George Waldegrave Leslie, M.P., proposed that a
subscription should be raised in, order to erect • memo-
rial tablet in the church of the parish in which the young
man was born—St. Clement's. The idea was adopted
unanimously, and the subscription list was a tolerably long
one before the termination of the meeting."

MORE SHIPWRECKS AND LOBB OF LIFE.—The
month of January, 1866, will long•be remembered as one
of disaster and sorrow. For the hat fortnight each day
has brought to Liverpool some now tidings of wrecks and
loss of life. Yesterday intelligence was received of the
total loss of the barque Prudhoe, and it is feared, also, of
every Amami board. The Prudhoe left Liverpool on the
6th inst. for Shanghae, under the command of Captain
Bartlett, with a crew of 14 men, and containing a very vs-
luable cargo. It is believed that the Prudhoe never cleared
the Channel, as large quantities of wreck and cargo from
her have been washed ashore near Fleetwood and Gleason
Dock. The identity of the unfortunate vessel is established
by an account-book belonging to the captain, by a policy of
insurance on his effects, and by an album containing his
name and portrait, as well as the portraits of his wife and
relatives, which have been washed ashore. The album is in-
scribed 'Captain Bartlett, 93, Duke-street, Liverpool." A
life. buoy, with the ship's name upon it, a portion of the
cabin house or deck, 16 feet of the main moat, three ven-
tilators, and portions of the upper masts' rigging have also
been cast on shore, but up to yesterday afternoon nn intel.
ligenoe had been received of any bodies having been re.
covered. The Prudhoe was a tiae iron bargee of 430 tons,
built at Shields in 1860, damnified A 1. The steamer
Herschel, which we mentioned yesterday as having been
wrecked on the South American coast, was on her voyage
from Rio Janiero to Moat* Video when the disaster 00.
curred. The telegram announcing the wrecks very brief,
and does not allude at all to the fate of the crew and pea-
; senger• The vessel was built io 1864, and owned in
Liverpool by Messrs. Lsmpoet and Holt. The James
Booth, outward bound for Gibraltar, &c., went ashore near
Emmons (in the Mersey) yesterday morning during •
heavy squall of wind, and sustained some damage which
compelled her removal to the graving-dock.
RAMS POE THE CHILIAN NAVY. —A fine BMW
ram, built by Messrs. Laird Brothers, has sailed from the
Mersey for Valparaiso. She is • sister vowel to the ram now
lying in the Thames for the Chilean goveromeet. The ram
j built by Messrs. Laird la called the Omar, that built in the
I Thames the Minerva.

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