The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

FRIDAY

crity. One of the persons on board the boat had merely
managed to escape with only a cloak, and this and his
shirt was his only covering. In the course of the night
this individual, supposed to be a gentleman, asked Mr.
Forster for a knife, if he had such a thing, to cut a
pock from his cloak for the purpose of covering his
bare head. Forster told him there was no necessity for
his doing that, fur that he could give him something bet-
ter, and then cut off half a comforter, for which the in-
dividual expressed himself moat grateful. Forster also
states that it is his opinion that a much greater number
would have been saved had the steam been turned cif
when the fire had been discovered. The fact was that
the steam hail boon generated in such quantities by the
enormous heat of the boilers, and every thing surrot:nd-
hog and was pouting into the machinery in that
uncontrolled manner, that the machinery itself must
have been moot powerful and perfect to have withstood
and prevented an explosion; but this state of things
caused the vessel to dash through the water with such
rapidity, as to retard the chances not only of getting the
boats into the water, but of multiplying the danger ar.d
difficulty of getting into them.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
(PROM A CORRESPONDENT OF THE CHRONICLE
PARIS, THURtDAY EVENING.--I had the satish.ction
this morning of sending you a short telegraphic dis-
patch, announcing the safe arrival at Brest, on the .sth
instant, of six passengers and nineteen of the crew of
the unfortunate Amazan. I now send you a letter
which I have received from a friend in Brest, giving
some interesting details of tho shipwreck, and the names
of the persons saved :

t half-past
that
the
" BREST, JAN. s.—The Dutch vessel, Gertruida,
Captain Tantelar, entered the roads here to-day, with
twenty-five shipwrecked persons, who escaped from a
terrible escastrophe, of which it is a miracle that they
are not the victims. The Royal Mail steam-packet
Amsz es, going to the West Indies, with a crew of
eanhtoruyt
tlt:2(t)hemßena,yanj
sOe
during the night of the ad of
Passengers, caught fire at the
January, in consolaence of the imprudence, it is be-
lieved, of le domestic, and ater a very short time the
vessel was nothing but a burning furnace. It appears
that in the midst of the confusion occasioned by the
efforie of the passengers to launch the ordinary boats
(the two life-boats having been immediately burnt), a
great number of these unfortunate people lost their
lives. Nevertheless, seven boats were saved, and, it is
believed, received the greatest portion of the passengers;
but of the seven, two only reached the Dutch ship which
has arrived here. She picked up the first boat yester-
day
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captain and officers, who showed great though unavail-
ing courage, him, perished in the steamer when she
blew up—for such was her fate, as an envoy of the
French Government, who was going to California for the
purpose of sending home accounts of the emigrants in
that country, assures me.
"In the presence of such a catastrophe' the British
vice-consul (in the absence of Sir Anthony Perrier, the
consul, who is detained in Paris by his duties as a mem-
ber of the International Sanitary Commission) lost no
time in endeavouring to save the lives of those who,
according to the accounts given by the passengers who
have arrived here, were saved in the four or five other
boats which escaped from the wreck, and which, from
all appearance, must still be struggling against the
waves. The maritime prefect was immediately applied
to, and he at once agreed to give every assistance,
and the Souilleur steamer, which was in the harbour,
was immediately ordered out. Captain Cabaret, the
worthy captain of the Souffieur, prepared for sea
with a promptitude which does him great credit.
Re will, however, have great difficulty in dis-
covering the precise position in which the melan-
choly accident happened, for the information given
by the crew and passengers rescued by the Gertruida
is so vague and unsatisfactory that he must be guided
a good deal by his own intelligence and circumstaeces.
The Souffieur, notwithstanding all the (-flares made to
dispatch her, was not able to leave the Goulet till night-
fall; but as there is moonlight, it may be able to be of
efficient service, and the zeal of the captain is such as
inspires great confidence.
",The whole of the shipwrecked passengers and crow,
who arrived by the Gertruida, have been brought ashore
in boats, and a more melancholy spectacle than they
presented could not be pictured. Among ;them are two
ladies and a child; and their sufferings may be con-
ceived from the fact that, basides all the other horrors
they have gone through, they were exposed to all
the inclemency of the weather, during nearly
forty-eight hours, almost in a state of nudity; for
as the fire broke out after the passengers had re-
tired for the nieht, end the raging element spread
through the devoted ship with desolating rapidity, they
had not time to save anything, or even to dress. Imme-
diately on the news of their arrival here, several ladies
hastened to send them the clothing they so much wanted.
The family of Sir Anthony Perrier also hurried to the
assistance of their distressed countrywomen, and with
their ordinary humanity, had the two ladies and their
child removed to their house, where they are now re-
ceiving the care and attention which they so much re-
quire. One of the ladies—Mrs. Eleanor Roper Mac-
lennan—is severely burnt, but not to the danger of her
life. During the whole of the period between the alarm
of fire and the time she left the ship she clung with ma-
ternal devotion to her child (a boy eighteen mouths' old)
and when so many others perished, contrived to save the
lives of both. Her husband, who was in the employment
of the Government at Demerara, was also on board. She
is still ignorant of his death, believing that he has es-
caped in one of the other boats; but her companions in
misfortune declare that they think he was blown up in
the steamer when the magazine blew up. The other lady
passenger, who has arrived here—Miss Anna Maria
Smith—cosies from Dublin, and, I understand, was on
her way to Porto Rico, to join a family in which she was
to be governess. The male passengers are all comfort-
ably lodged at an hotel here, by directions of the Vice-
Consul. They are also completely destitute, both of
money and clothing, but have been amply provided with
shoes, hats, and wearing apparel, by the Vice-Consul,
who has also secured means to convey them with the
least possible delay to Morlaix, where they will be
shipped for England. It is almost unnecessary to say
that the mail-bags, as well as everything else on board
the unfortunate Amazon, have been totally lost.
have only to add that the captain of the Ger-
truida has acted with the most praiseworthy humanity.
He not only placed everything on board his vessel at
the disposal of our shipwrecked countrymen, but had
gone out of his track to carry them to the nearest
harbour.
e The following is a list of the persons saved in the
two boats rescued by the Gertruida, and landed at
Brest:—
. FIRST BOAT.—Eleancr Roper Maclennan, and child,
passengers; Frederick Glennie, passenger; Bernardo
Burnicsin (or Barnicose), ea
ditto; Jacob Allen, fireman at
Mr. Seya erd's; John Lamont, fireman; William Stone,
ditto; William Goodman, ditto; Henry Carter, ditto;
Charles Samy, ditto; George Arding, ditto; George
Lucan, ditto; John Rodgers, seaman; James Berryman,
ditto; Frederick Wall, sailor-bay; Michael Gould, second
steward.
hSCOND BOAT.---Anna Marie Smith, passenger;
William Evans, ditto; Jean Stybus (or Strybos), ditto;
George Deal, quartermaster; Alexander Laing, ditto;
Daniel Brown, seaman; Joseph Welchman, ditto; Thos.
Attwood, fireman."

THE DISPATCH EXHIBITION_-____.
seen by referring to an advertisementCEART.—Ii will be
issue of the Coloured Exhibition elsewhere, that the
grams and at one view, the number of
showing, by dia-
the Cr3stal Palace during a of persons that entered
Period of four months, the
amount of money taken at the d
of an interesting character, deriv4ra, and other statistics
'
from various sources;
and which was promised to be giveniithhray by the proprietors
0 Chartiinconsiderable
nhs
iadse
toiflltheli 7
Sunday,ee k 1 yt./b?ip
satt
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February,o on th e
WeBt.
has been postponed
delay has been rendered necessary understand that this
for the Dispatch and
enormous and unforeseen demand in consequence of the
), and the tedious pro-
Chart, on Sunday last (the -Ithrimste.
cess of producing the latter h
mans of ordinary surface
come
amount of labour and
under our own view,
8 work of great useful-
and we unhesitatingly pronounce it
skid in its accomplishment. There steamness -printing.
attended
Chart, each of which has to he nett are five colours in the
process, involving nice manipulation hence
by a separate
encountering a great and sudden hence the difficulty of
circumstances, we think, plead a demand.at These various
the postponement, and we have no doubt
justification for
bearance and indulgence of the public. t will secure the for-
THE PATENT WIRE TYPE COMPANY. -- In the
course of our notices, during the summer, -
of
the most re-
markable displays of mechanical genius to
Great Exhibition, we directed attention to be found in the
102, Class VI.) for the manufacture of type a machine (No.
tals, and where type was
raped nd finishedi rom hard me-.
feet form with the greatest iity, and the n the most per-
accorded to the invention. The process of garlee medal was
may remark, is this :-wire, prepared of the i nufacture, we
the type required, is served to the machine ze and form of
self-
acting. As the wire is drawn in the , which is letter is
its end by a die of hardened steel, and is then struck upon
ously cut off at its proper length, and in this instantane-
chine delivers the type at the rate of one ilii way the ma-
mite ; while from the hard character of the tonadred per mi-
creased by the pressure it receives, a clear and
sharp
outline
With these valuable properties, added to the vaseer means.
labour in its production, and its great durability b saving of
times that of the ordinary soft cast type), it i ping sixty
not to perceive that before long cast type will be impossible
superseded. The name of Mr. liensman, C.E. (who
such efficient services at the Great Exhibition, in rendered
rangement of the machinery department), being o the ar-
rangement
the directors, strongly confirms our opinion thatn the list
this is
likely to be one of the most important, and at the
t. same
profitable, inventions of the age; while that of m. Harding, tiros
the well-known official manager of joint-stock
companies, is
a guarantee to the public that the interests of shareholders
will be carefully protected.
NOTICE —The new novel, " The Death-Fla ~ 3
vols., by the popular author of " Geraldine of Desmond,",
~ is
now ready at all respectable libraries in
England, Scotland,
and Ireland. " A romance of absorbing interest."- John
Bull. " Without doubt, its popularity will be only equalled
by the anxiety with which its appearance has been looked
for."—lllessenger. 2. Just ready, e Horace Grantham,•
or,
The Neglected Son," by Charles Florrocks, Es,i (late -.
Cap-
tain 15th Regiment). 3. O'Byrne's " Pocket Post-office
Directory to London and its Environs for 1852," with map,
&c. 4. "Alice Rivers; or,aYoung
Lady, in the Life of -L.'
Lady, written by Herself," 2 vols., with portrait.
MORE PENNY OMNIBUSES.—A line of cleanly-
looking, well-horsed omnibuses ran, for the first time,
yes-
terday between Shoreditch and Lambeth Union Workhouse,
at the charge of one penny for the whole distance, which
cannot be less than five miles. The public are now accom-
modated with penny omnibuses along two very extensive
thoroughfares of the metropolis, viz., Holborn andthe Bo-
rough and Bishopsgate-street, and between two of its ex-
tremest suburbs, viz., Kingsland and Lambeth.
An Irish Roman Catholic lady, whose son •
is fight-
ing at the C is •
Cape, said to have paid a heavy sum to a pri •
est
to say masses for the souls of all the Kafirs who have fallen
by her son's hands.