Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

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The members of the Corporation having inspected
every part of the ship, were served with luncheon in the
grand saloon, and left .the ship atter a stay of three
hours. The excursion trains of the South Western
Railway will commence running to-morrow at low rates
of fares, and it is expected that a large number of Per-
sons will avail themselves of the :opportunity afforded
of visiting the ship after its third and most successful
.trip.

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THE WRECK OF TI

ADJOURNED INQUEST,

ROYAL CHARTER-

THE VERDICT•

(From our Correspondent.)

Moelfri Bay, Friday Night.
The following evidence was taken on Friday
noon in continuation of that which we published on
Saturday. after-

Mr. Yames'nithsell, A second class passenger, was
sworn, and stated that he was below nearly the whmß
of the evening when the :wreck took place, and cone'
queiatlY he did not see the captain at all. With re.la7
to the statement that the captain was drunk, he heai'd
from Suiacar and the carpenter, and it was the geliet „
,
talk upon the rocks after they were washed ashore. P,".
himself never saw the captain in drink during the whole
of the voyage.

Captain Martin, marine superintendent for the fillll,,
of Gibbs, Bright, and Co., was next called, and he sal',
that from the evidence he had heard, and the position
the ship, as indicated on the chart by the surveyors who
had been examined, he was of opinion that it was quite
impossible for Captain Taylor to have done otherwise
than he did, and, that neither the Royal Charter nor
any other ship could have survived the storm, from the
position in which sh'e was placed. There was no doub,,
that he was in search of a pilot. The Royal Charter
was equipped, under his own directions, with everything
that it was possible to get, in order to make her
seaworthy, and fit for the voyage. In fact, he had orders
from Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., to see that nothing*

,
was wanting. He denied the statement made by Mr-
Mellor, that the ship had been altered, and rendered
weaker.

Captain Fell, Lloyd's agent, was next examined, and
he said he was satisfied that Captain Taylor had done
everything that it was possible to do for the safety of
the ship. He considered that no blame whatever
attached to him, under the circumstances.
The Coroner, in summing up, said it was one of the
most melancholy shipwrecks that had ever occurred in
this country, hundreds of lives having been sacrificed.
He himself was perfectly satisfied that Captain Taylor
was sober, and that nothing could have saved the ship'
He then observed that he did not think it necessary to
go through' the evidence. The facts were before the
jury, and upon those facts it was for them to return
their verdict.
The jury almost immediately returned the following
verdict : 'From the evidence tendered we are unani-
mously of opinion that the deceased, James Walton,
and others, imfortunat9ly lost their lives on board the
Royal Charter by pure ccide it ; that Captain
Taylor
was perfectly sober, and nad done all in his power to
save the ship and the lives of r

_ ~asengrers."
The announcement of the verdict was received with
much satisfaction by those present, and there was a
general feeling of indignation at the unfounded iturl'"..
tions which had been directed against the captain.

FRESH INCIDENTS.
MOELFRA, Frido.v.,c
f d lit
to all 1;
Every day new and strange incidents of the int
and the wreck of the Royal Charter are being e d
first, in the excitement of escape, survivors;crow-
wh.h betel theca
only the more important incidents
in
mostt h the
interestingo i
r U now tives 01
I.nselciclesen
friends on board. We have held co,,,,veratiollS with
many of the survivors, and all speak in 'the higu-,1
who
bad
rely r6.ti;
terms of the conduct of Captain Taylor, his officers, 311
crew; as well as of the much-lamented Rev. C. ifodg;
The wreck is less visible now than it was a few (Li)
after the accident. Tides do not retire so far as the:+4.
did ; the next lowest tide will be on Saturday week'
steam-tug is in daily attendance, which receives from
two boats what the divers are able to send up from
below. The operations of the divers have, up to the
present, been successful in bringing up about £6OO
..
worth of copper. One diver, on Thursday, was eni
ployed in inspecting the relative positions of the wreck'
and Captain Fell was taking soundings. Wednes:
day and Thursday were beautiful summer days ,
the sky was clear, the air warm, and the se!'
as quiet and calm as an inland lake. But on Fri'
day morning a change took place, and rain calq
down in torrents. The sea has again been roused, and
huge breakers, surging upwards, break their stren&
upon the rocks. The divers, in consequence of t1?-3
were not at work on Friday, and the steam-tug havu'7a
them on board has taken shelter in Beaumaris pa
On the shore were pitched up a portion of the body °it
child and two gold watches, one having attached t°,,,s
a steel chain with long links. On Thursday we toSo
-walk along the rocky shore, from the point wheret'ile
wreck is lying to the point near Moelfra, wheeteioa
majority of the bodies were washed ashore • every et.,- re
was thickly strewn with debris, examining whica "4ees
several
disconsolate women who were seeking some -
of their husbands, while villagers on du-V-o°,lolo
tinctive mark being a bit of cloth or ribbbn tied roan- of
left arm—assisted them to- mount the heavy mass° eir
rock over and around which they had to thread..ttecl
way. Many of these pieces of rock must have Wlra,
from 80 to 100 tons, yet, on the night of the ,s`° r
~ie
they were knocked about like so many pebbles.
many of these huge masses there were pieces of cloth' a,
timbers, and cordage. By. night, the coast-PardleeP
assisted by some policemen, mariners, and villagers) the
guard over the remains of the ill-fated ship. Close bat
wreck a large hut has been constructed of broken ti tiles,
broken spars serve as seats, broken planks as °Titer
night and by at times strange and boisterous laughers
wakes the echoes in the rocks, as the weary .watc
ob.
seek by strange stories to beguile time and ebee,rriekS
other. up. But they tell the villagers stories of
being, heard amongst the rocks, and unearthly /Doan]. t,1,4
which, notwithstanding all their forced gaiety, often ePacof
their hearts. On shore the old men tell of strang drtewitit
and as all mysterious things have especial interes _eird
the simple-hearted islanders, credence is placed to
stories which in the telling affright the stoutest
-1)

AN ATLANTIC DINNER.jI don't complain of the °o
at sea, neither, because the quality is the best thatvia;
be got, I do suppose, but it is feedin', it ain't e 3 isn't
there is no enjoyment in it. It ain't that then Ifs
enough for all, but that there is too much.
.0, to°
, mixture of this, that, and the other, all too hiri,ottivo
steamy, and too bakey like ; it looks sodden. 011454
sodden. The fish has touched the ice, and the file color
touched the meat, and you don't feel as if 9°'l.-b
touch either. The Atlantic air makes you Opt my
dinner, hut what you see takes away all desire._l 0;13,
The kitchen is too close to you, the butcher's sti7l,ol4'
near also, and the baker leaves his door open, s,
ain't the most inviting sight in the world.—Cie,
Press

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Dn. SMETHURST.-It has been reported iiny
last few days, that an order had-teen sent dowu nog
ce r a,
Secretary of State, commuting the' apital senteo iip, b f
upon this prisoner to one of penal servitude fbro.cialsl,°o
vhiissitfiedliall:
upon inquiry being made on Saturday of the ° for t'
the prison, it appears that there is no foundatieuilorse'
statement, and Dr. SmethUrst still revaains proo'
monger-lane Gaol, under the respite from the ;0 bee%
and not the slightest intimation appears to 130aleiiile
made with. regard to the intentions of the o°,vhio tP,
baseetno
his hr
_olieete,b
utmost coolness and composure, and it is rather : los a a
able circumstance that since his conviction bother Old
Mr. Humphrey, the solicitor, who, it will be` et: of lt
defended him- at the trial. The prisoner f, 0 till'a
Horsenionger-lane Gaol on the 19th of Atig'l"- d 311
rio , to
ydisapsoisnagll.e
pTehrseenprisectme ce rpt still a...r00t;
that Pe ble
eeo---ci...
the extraordinary delay appears quite
uneennectea 0
_et
three months have nearly elapsed since nilta ~h,
the,officials of the prison, and every one . th pris To
the case. The impression upon the micareceivev aLI
. ~... ill

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