The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-22 00:00:00

could not identify Kingston as the man in his bedroom when
he awoke, and all the other circumstances were matters of mere

suspicion.
The bench said they would commit the prisoner for trial.
Mr. Stanisland here said that he had himself been robbed
while at an hotel in London of a large sum of money (6001.),
and he had reason to believe that the prisoner was an accom-
plice in the robbery. Another man, connected with the
prisoner, had just been captured on hoard the Persia, at
Liverpool, when about to sail for New York, and would be
taken to London for examination, a number of waiters from
Morley's Hotel, London, who had bee❑ down at Liverpool to
identify the prisoner, having to return to London, where it
would be more convenient for that reason to hear the case.
He wished the prisoner Kingston, therefore, to be remanded,
and that the magistrates would give hint up to be taken to
London.
Mr. Maude said he would remand the prisoner; hut the
best way to proceed would be to apply for a habeas corpus.
The magistrates declined to consider a question as to bail at
present.

THE LOSS OF THE BARQUE BLAKE

FEARFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE CREW.

By the arrival of the ship Mercury, at Torbay, we have
received the following report of the loss, and subsequent
painful sufferings, of the crew of the barque Blake, of
Liverpool

The British barque Blake, Captain Edward Rudolf, sailed
from Ship island harbour, Mississippi, with a cargo of
pitch pine deals, bound to Cork for orders ; she sailed on the
Bth of February, 1856, with a fire fair wind and good wea-
ther, and was in good trim and fine order, and every hopes of
making a good and prosperous passage. The weather

continued fine, and we made nice progress on our way,

sighting Bermuda on the eighteenth day after leaving port,
the ship tight and in fine order. On the 4th day of March
the weather began to change. Commenced with rain y
squally weather. sth, It hauled to S.W., blowing a strong
gale and a heavy sea running. Finding the ship
making a little water, the pumps were attended to
every watch. 6th and 7th, The gale increasing, and
sea running very high and crossed ; wind blowing from
N.W. to W.N.W., causing the ship to labour heavily,

and kept one pump constantly going, the ship running under
double reefed main and close reefed fare topsails and foresail.
Bth and 9th, Gale still continuing, and veering more to

northward, with very heavy squalls, and a tremendous

crossed sea, causing her to labour, and straining her awfully.
Both pumps were kept constantly at work, ship running
under close reefed main topsail and reefed foresail. Tried
to forereach her under the two close reefed topsails, but not

succeeding were ultimately obliged to run her ; found the
ship making water fast, and it gaining upon us—there being
three feet water in the hold. 10th and 11th, Gale still con-

tinning, and squalls more violent, attended with hail and
snow, and very cold ; the water gaining rapidly on the
pumps, there being nine feet water in the hold. 12th,
Blowing a terrific gale from the W.N.W., with a very heavy
sea running, thirteen feet water in the hold, and men worn
out havirg been at the pumps constantly for three days and
nights, without sleeping or rest of any sort. The water was
rising fast ; the ship getting heavy and difficult to steer ; at
six p.m. she broached to and shipped a heavy sea, which
carried away the man at the wheel, the binnacle, skylights,

life and jolly boats and all the bulwarks. Took the foresail
in and rounded her to under a close reefed main topsail,
when the sheet parted, and the sail blew away. She lay
very broad to the sea, which made a clean breach over her,

carrying away the spars on deck, water casks, galley, long
beat, topgallant forecastle and breaking in the poop, which
washed away the cabin, and everything off deck.
Got the main trysail set, and tried to get forward
to cut away the foremast, but found it impossible for a soul
to get there. The ship was now laying water-logged, it
blowing a terrific gale, with very violent squalls, and the
sea making a clean breach over her, all hands clinging to
the weather rigging and in the maintop, everything being
washed away from the maindeck. 13th, Blowing a terrific
Ihurricane, with heavy squalls of hail, sleet and snow, from
N.W., and fearfully cold. At eleven a.m., were struck
with a terrific squall, and a tremendous sea at the same
time, which capsized the ship, washing away seven men,
poop deck, and bursting up the
main deck, washed off all
the batches, and carrying off every morsel of provisions
there was on board the ship. The ship lay in
this state about two hours, while the hurricane

blew, the remainder of the crew nearly perishing with
the piercing cold, when she carried away all he
three lower masts at the heads, and bowsprit at the stem,
and slowly righted. Having a list, it formed a little shelter
from the cold under the weather-poop-bulwarks aft, where
we were obliged to hold on, and make ourselves fast, to
prevent being washed away by the sea that was constantly
breaking over us. In this sad and miserable position we
were obliged to remain until the 18th, the gale still continu-
ing and the sea breaking over us (lat. about 43 15 N.,
long. 38 30 W.), and unable to move from our
position for fear of being washed away ; this being
five days without a morsel of food or a drink of
water, without rest, and constantly drenched by the sea.
19th, Gale and sea more moderate; at the risk of our lives
attempted to get forward for water, and succeeded,
but spoiled this cask of water in the attempt. This day
one of the seamen died from cold, hunger, and fatigue; we
put him overboard. In the afternoon the gale began to
moderate ; got some pieces of canvass to lay upon, and all
huddled together in a heap to keep ourselves warm. 20th,
This being the seventh day without anything to eat, I
caught a half-drowned rat, which I immedi:tely cut t.p and
shared out to each one; it was a delicious morsel. The
weather was still very rough and cold. 21st, The eighth
day ; we were able to get forward, and get a small cask of
water from the hold, and rolled it aft, and lashed it to the
stauncheon—this being the only thing we had to depend
upon. Ninth day, No sail could yet be discerned upon the
horizon, all eyes being daily and nightly stretched to catch
a glimpse of some friendly sail. Hunger now began to tell
heavily upon us all, and its ravages were plainly discerned.
Tenth day : What a joyous sound was heard this morning,
as the watch, at daylight, cried " Sail, ho !" and two vessels
were seen, and every heart leaped with joy, but only to meet
a heavier disappointment. The two vessels passed—one to
windward, and the other to leeward—without taking any
notice of us. Ohl this disappointment was heartbreaking ;
with starvation staring us in the face, and the cries and the
moans of the men around me calling on their God to help
them, with their glaring eyes and emaciated forms looking
so pitifully towards me, as if I could assist them. The
scene was awful and horrible, and cannot be described by
pen ; and, in my situation, I had to hold up against every
thing to sustain them, that they might not give way to it.
Many times I had to set my heart as hard as iron, to bear
up against their cries and appeals to me as to what they
should do, when I could have laid down and given way to
grief and sorrow far deeper than themselves. To see those
men, once so strong and robust, and now nothing better
than moving skeletons. To hear them smacking their lips
and dreaming of being at some friendly table eating and
erjoying themselves, as they would fall off into some of
their dozing sleeps from fatigue, only to be awakened by the
wash of a sea to behold their deplorable fate, which was
frequent ; than their cries and moans,would be heart-rend-
ing. They by this time began to get flighty, from weak-
ness, and sores were breaking out all over us, from being
constantly wet with salt water. In this way we con-
tinued until the 13th day, when we saw another vessel
pass, and take no notice of us. The wailing and moaning
upon this day are too awful to be described. Thirteen
days without a morsel of fond of any kind to put to our
lips. Another seaman died this day of starvation. We
did not put him overboard, but reserved his corpse for our
own use, and in this state we lingered far four days more,
living off the body of our dead companion, but I must say
very sparingly indeed, for the thoughts of it was almost as
bad as death itself. Through these four awful days Ido
not see how we ever lived, not having a dry place to lay,
and the sea continually washing over us ; and as some of us
would drop off in cur dozing state, dreaming of
feasting, and be awakened in a few minutes by the wash
of a sea, then, coming to a sense of their situation,
and the dead body of their comrade swinging in the pale
moonlight, the cries and moans of the men were appal-
ling. On Saturday, the 29th March, we bore the heaviest
and greatest disappointment, a large ship, passing us about
two miles to windward, and not seeing us, it being two
early in the morning. This was the seventeenth day since
we capsized, and nothing to eat but the dead body of our
comrade, none of us hardly able to move from weakness
and fatigue, and all our lives gone. I laid myself down
when the ship passed us, shut my eyes, and gave up all
hopes of ever seeing land again, and was about resigning
myself to my fate, when, about two hours after, I heard
cries of joy from all, of sail ho I sail ho ! repeated in such
strain, as will. never be erased from my memory while on
this earth. She proved to be the schooner Pigeon, Captain
W. S. Knight, of St. Johns, Newfoundland. It blowing a
strong gale from W.S.W. at the time, and a good sea on,
they had some difficulty in removing us from the wreck,
owing to our weak, miserable state. Our clothes, on
being taken off us, were completely rotten, being so long
wet; we could pick them all off by pieces.
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF TILE CREW.
SURVIVORS.—Wynne Dugan, mate, of Swansea; James
Cosgrove, second mate, of Liverpool ; John George Rudolf,
third mate, of Ilalifa; ; .john Petersen, seaman, of Trieste ;
.foseph Barber, seaman; of Genoa ; John Kieren, seaman,
Of Germany; William Thomas, cook, of Halifax.
WASHED 'OVERBOARD.—John Phillips, carpenter, of
Dundee ; Thomas Leach, seaman, of Dublin ; Henry
Eccleston, seaman, of New York; Joseph Thompson,
seaman, of New York; John Crimmons, seaman, of New
York ; William Brown, seaman, of New York; Charles
oeck, seaman, of Baltimore; nathan Roberts, steward,
of Liverpool.
Jose Ariva, of Callao, and Richard Foss, of Bideford,
Wales, died from fatigue 40 starvation.
EDWARD RUDOLF, Master.
Ship Mercury, off Start Point, 8 a.m.,
Friday, April 18th, 1856
Monday, April 7th.—Lat. 41.39, N; long. 41.50, W.
spoke schooner Pigeon, Knight, from Lisbon for St. John's,
N.F., short of water, &c., supplied her, and from Captain
Rudolf obtained the report accompanying this, which he
desired to be forwarded to England.