The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-09 00:00:00

THE ADMIRALTY REGISTER OF WRECKS

FOR 1853.

( From the Lifeboat,
_or Journal of the National Ship

wrecX; Listitution for October.)

In the Lifeboat Journal, No. 11, we gave as one rea-
son for the discontinuance of the register of shipwrecks
on the coasts of the United Kingdoni, which we had
previously inserteel,• that a wreck register was being
compiled a; the Admiralty, which would be annually
presented to Parliament. That document for 1853 has
now been published, which enables us to furnish our
readers with a summary of -its contents.

It is, as usual, a fearful list, numbering► 332 disasters ;
but it is gratifying to observe, so far as loss of property
is concerned, that the register for 1853 shows a very
considerable decrease in the number of wrecksand casual-
ties, as compared with the preceding year, when 1,115
occurred. _ _ _

'Tin tho gales of February, March, April, and Julr,
1353, the number.: exceeded those of the same months
in 1852, and the month of May in each year produced
the same amount ; but in all tin other months of 1853
the numbers fell much short of those in the correspond-

ing months of the previous year.
This may be accounted for by the fact that the gales
of the winter months of 1853 were less frequent and of
shorter duration, although they blew with occasional
violence. On the other hand, however, the year 1853
records a loss of 989 lives, being 69 more than were lost
in 1852, when the number, so far as is known, was 920.
Tilie increased number in proportion to the number of
wrecks was caused by the great sacrifice of life which
occurred in two or three individual instances. Thus, the
loss of the Annie Jane shows 360 alone, that of the
Queen Victoria 83, and of the Dalhousie 59.
There can be no doubt that these total numbers for
each year show considerably less than the actual amount
of loss of life which has occurred on and around our
coast, as there are no means at command for ascer-
taining the number of those whose vessels sail out of
port and are never again heard of. The lives of
fishermen and other boatmen are undoubtedly also
often lost without any official returns being made of

the same.
The Admiralty Register of TVrecks is compiled princi-
cipally from the Coastguard returns, from Lloyd's pub-
lished list, from the Shipping and Mercantile Uazette,
and from the official reports of Lloyd's agents around
the coast to the Admiralty. It is prepared by Com-
mander J. V. Read, R.N., and although imperfect, as
any such register must be, there is no doubt that it is
the most complete account of wrecks published.
Annexed to the returns is a wreck chart, on which a
black spit marks the site of each wreck, fire, or colli-
sion, as far as it can be ascertained.
The following is a summary of the Register :
The wreck.; on the coasts and in the seas of the United
Kingdom, in the year 1853, were 832, which may be
th us classed :

Totally wrecked 369
Totally lost in collision
Damaged seriously, and bad to discharge 386
Damaged seriously in collision

The number of casualties in each month were :
January, 100 ; February, 91 ; March, 52 ; April, 78 ;
May. 41 ; June, 26 : July, 45 ; ...August, 33 ; Septem-
ber, 70 ; October, 96 ; November, 71 ; December, 123.
Total, 832.
Of these, 253 occurred on the east coast of Great
Britain ; 76 on the south coast, and 130 on the west
coast ; 81 wrecks took place on the coasts of Ireland ;
6 were cast on shore at Scilly ; 11 at the Channel
Islands ; 3 at Orkney and Shetland ; and 12 at the Isle
of Man ; the remaining 260 wrecks occurred in the sur-
rounding seas.
The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has
been ascertained, amounts to 989.
Of these, 18 went down with the Herald, which sunk
off the Start, after collision with a schooner at night,
ou the 15th of January ; 83 in the Queen Victoria
steam-ship, which ran on the rocks near the Bailey
Lighthouse, Dublin, at night, and sunk on the 15th of
February ; 11 (the crews of two Lossiemouth fishily?
boats) were lost on the 23d of February ; 11 in the
barque Irene, upset in the Mersey on the 26th of
February in a heavy gale ; 16 in the Duke of Suther-
land steam-ship, wrecked at the pierhead, Aberdeen, on
the let of April ; 12 in the Richardson, which sunk near
St. Bees Head on the 22d of April ; 12 in the Olive
Branch, which sailed from Shields for London, on the
25th of April, and has not been heard of since ; 10 in
the St. Tudno, which sailed from Newcastle on the 17th
of May, and has not been heard of ; 360 in the Annie
Jane, from Liverpool, bound to Montreal, wrecked on
Isle Vateria, Hebrides, in a heavy gale, on the 2Sth of
September ; 59 in the Dalhousie, which foundered off
Beechy Head, on the night of the 19th of October ; 20
died on board the Isaac Wright, which was stranded on
the Irish coast, and put back to Liverpool in distress
on the 4th of October ; 15 in the California packet, from
Sligo for New York, laden with iron, which foundered
160 miles west of Ireland, on the 4th of November ; 60
in the Marshall steam-ship, which foundered off the
Humber, in oullision with the barque Waodtionse' at
night, on the 28th of November; 19 who were washed
overboard from the E, Z. at sea, in distress, on passage.
from Liverpool to New York, on the 6th of December ;
10 in the Caravene, wrecked near Black water Head,
Wexford, in a heavy gale, on the 19th of December ; 18
in the Chatham, wrecked on the bar of Drogheda, in the
night of the 19th of December ; and 9 in the Eva screw
steam-vessel, which parted asunder and sunk cif Lambay
Island on the 27th of December. The remainder were
lost in smaller groups ; to which are to be added an un-
certain, though, without doubt, a large number drowned
in missing ships.
How many painful reflections is such a return calcu-
lated to awaken in every mind ? That 1,000 lives
(which may be taken as a probable average) shbuld be
thus, every year, prematurely cut off on our own coasts
alone, is, indeed, a melancholy fact. There is no other
calling of life than that of those whose " business is on
the great waters" in which so constant and great a sacri-
fice ofjife takes place.
When the scourge of war is raging, wo hear of larger
numbers perishing together in a comparatively short
time. We are, however, accustomed to look on war as
a great but necessary evil, which the wisdom of a Di-
vine but benevolent Providence sees fit to inflict on his
creatures at intervals of time, doubtless, to proinote the
ultimate benefit of mankind, by the changes which, in
the present imperfect condition of this unsettled world,
can, perhaps, only by such means be brought about. We
are accustomed to look on those who perish on the field
of battle as men whose calling and duty it is to seek
such an end when their country's good shall requre such
a sacrifice ; and renown and glory have in all ages been
held to accompany such a death ; all of which reasons
contribute to make it a picture less gloomy and sad to
look upon than that encountered in the daily avocation's
of life, when the last struggle is with the elements alone,
and the gurgling waters, as they close over their vie-

.m, separat; bias for ever from all the tics of life.

But, after all, the most painful part of the subject to
our minds is the question which forces itself on us,—
How much of the sacrifice of life and consequent human
misery might have been prevented ? A sense of neglected
opportunity is, probably, one of the most painful reflec-
tions which ever saddens the human breast, as, without
doubt, it is one of the most alarming that ever arouses
the long slumbering conscience at the last hour. But a
nation collectively may be awakened to a sense of " ne-
glected opportunity" as well as an individual ; and, as
with an individual, well it is if such takes place before
it be too late—before the opportunity be taken away.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge sent
to Downing-street, at an early hour yesterday morning,
to obtain the latest intelligence from the Crimea. Col.
Mundy saw Lord Burghersh, and it was understood his
lordship would have an interview with her royal high-
nesaduringthe day. _ _

His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian Minister
has left town for Paris.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll are entertaining a
select circle of visitors at Inverary Castle. His grace is
expected to arrive in London the week after next.

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The Duchess of Sutherland received despatches from
her son—Lord Frederick Leveson Gower—attached to
the Rifle Brigade, in the Crimea, yesterday.
The Duke of Buccleuch, having obtained a fresh lease
of Montagu House, Whitehall, from the Crown, an emi-
nent architect, by his grace's orders, has prepared plans
for the construction of a new mansion on the present
site, which will shortly be commenced. The noble duke
has taken the Countess Brownlow's mansion in Be'grave-
square during the rebuilding of the new edifice.
His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and
the Countess St. Germans, who are staying at Port Eliot,
Cornwall, are expected to return to the Viceregal Lodge
at Dublin, at the close of the month, for the winter.
The Earl of Jersey, who has been severely pdi
at Middleton, which caused the countess andthiLeaEdECl
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character
are entertained as to his lordship's recovery.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone
are staying with Sir Stephen Glynne and. a family circle,
at Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, where they arrived on
Thursday, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Elles-
mere, at Worsley-hall.
We are happy to announce that Captain Clifford,
R.N., of H.M.S. Sphinx, son of Sir Augustus Clifford,
who met with the severe cccident (the fracture of both
irets by the breaking of a towing-rope), is in the Hasler
Hespital, and progressing as favourably as can be ex-
pected, the severity of the injury being considered.
The ordinary session of the Chamber of Deputies of
the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was opened on the 3d
by Prince Ream in the namo of the King of Hollind.

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MAEKE'T .NEWS-(THISIDAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
. .
Slightly increased supplies of English wheat were on
sale in most of the conantry markets held on Saturday.
About an average business was transaoted in most kinds,
at full prices. There was a good sale for barley, the
value of which had an 'ward tendency. Other articles
were steady.
Most of the Continental 'xnarkets have been less active,
yet the general qiiotations, have Tbeen supportad.rplltr
latest advices from New York state that flour had ftiitb•r
declined 6d to is per barrel, with increased supplies

offer.
The arrivals of English grain up to- our market
week were but moderate. The imports of foreign
only 2,385 quarters of whoa, 11,842 oats, 241 beaust9Bs
peas, 171 tares, 33 rapeseed, 224 mustard seed, 719 stufry
seeds, 930 sacks and 71 barrel.; of.flour. --
The quantity of English licrheat received fresh up to our
market, to-day, was moderate,, and in fair ayerato condi-
tion. It was chiefly coroporei of the present ycnrygrowth.
The show of samples was tolerably good ; neveftlielesa, the
market opened with considerable firmness on tho part of
the !actors. Subsequently, the demand ruled steady.
Some very superior parcels realised 2s. per quarter 1!10111
money than on this day se'nnight." Secondary kinds were
firm, at an improvement of is. per quarter. Few qualities
were disposed of on former tei nas.
The show of foreign wheat was far from extensive.
There was a good demand for most descriptions, and in
some transactions prices war from is to 2s per quarter
higher than on this day se'unig lat.
Scarcely any floating cargoes were on offer.
We were very scantily supplied with all kinds of barley.
The
trade ruled healthy, at fally last Monday's improve.
meat in value.

There was a good inquiry for ,malt, at extreme quota.:
tions.

-The quantity of oats in the market was very moderate;
yet the sale for them was by no mean actiite, on fokisie
terms.

The demand for beans ruled firm, and prices were well
supported.
Peas were in request, but not dearer.
The flour trade was firm, lint we have no change to
notice in prices.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. •
Wheat—Essen & Kent, Italt--Chevalier .... 69s to 701
Red •• .. new 54s to 633 Oata Yorkshire and
Ditto .... ........ old 585 684 Lineolnsk., feed 22s 266
vitt°, White new 60s 71s . Potato • . 25s 28s
Ditt0........ old 55s 67s Youghal and Cork
Norfolk and Lin- Black. •••• •• 18s 25s
coin, Red, old 49s 50 Cork, White ... .. 24s 276
Ditto new ••.• •• 485 5251 Scotch, Feed..... 28s 30s
itse—Old ............ s —s' Beans—Tick ......... 40s 48s
pigeons ...... .... 42e 564
Barley—Grinding ....• 3380: s 4302: Peas—OreY ••••• • • • • • aSs 37e
Malting ......... 30s 32s Maple... •••• • • • • 38s 40a
Chevalier.... ... 32s 33s White. ••••.. • . .. 40$ 45s
Halt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •••••• • • • • —s —,-s
folk •••••• • • . • .. 62s 67s flour—Town-made.— 505 55s
Brown .••• • .• ........ 58s 60s rtuirolk .•••• • • • 445 48s
Kingston and Ware 68i 69 ‘ Btooktn & Norfolk 44s 46s

SMITHFIELD.
We were again heavily supplied with foreign stock, but
its quality was very inferior.
The arrival of beasts fresh up from our own grazing
districts were considerably on the increase, compared with
Monday last. The general weight and condition of most
kinds was very satisfactory. Tho attendance of buyers
was far from extensive, and the demand for beef was in a
depressed state, at a decline in the quotations of 2d. per
lb., and a clearance was nut effected. The top figure for
beef was 4s. 10d. per 81bs.
From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton-
shire, we received 2,600 short horns ; from other parts of
England, 600 of various breeds ; and from Scotland 17
horned Scots. •
We were rather heavily supplied with most breeds of
sheep. Generally speaking, their condition was by no
means first-rate. The inuttpii trade ruled dull, at a de-
cline in the currencies of 2d. per 81bs. We may observe,
however, that a few very inf,,,rior old Downs realised last
week's quotations.
There was a fiiir sale forcalvos, the supply of which was
but moderate, at Friday's advance of 2d per 81bs.
The demand for pigs ruled steaJy, at extreme rates. The
top figure was ss. per 81bs.
Last week's imports of foreign stock into London were
again moderate—the total supply amounting to 6,097 head.
In the corresponding week 1653 we received 12,452; in
1852, 8,660 ; in 1851, 6,618; in 1850, 7,352 ; in 1849,
5,092 ; in 1848, 3,800 and in L 347, 3,893 head.
a impetus INTO LONDG Y LAST WEEK.
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
24 ... 149 ..„

From
Dortit

•••
Amsterdam I3G 1,211 ... 66
Rotterdam.— 472 ... 1,712 ... 101 8
Harlingen
Touniugen 4SS 309
Hamburgli GO ... 12G

~ .-- ...

"--. ... -.--..

Total ... 1,497 ... 4,095 ... 40 ... 214 ... 251
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1853 ...1,873 ... 9,565 ... 97 ... 526 ... 401
1852 1,707 ... 6,252 ... ... 362 ... 339
1851 1,701 ... 4,480 ... ... 232 ... 198
1850 1,519 ... 4,995 ... ... 231 ... 393
1819 1,121 ... 3,775 ... ... 134 ... 59
Per 51bs to sink the Obis.
s. d. a. (1.) s. d. s d.
Inferior Beasts.... 3 oto 3 21PrimeSouthdown 4 6 410
Second quality.... 3 4 3 filiarge crse. calves 3 2 3 1,1
Prime large oxen 310 4 61Prime small d 0... 4 0 4 6
Primo Scots, cite. 4 8 4 1011Arge hogs 3 2 4 4
Inferior Sheep ...3 0 3 416m9.11 porkers 4 6 5 0
Second quality ...3 6 3 8 sucklingcalves ..22 0 29 0
i
Primo crao.-w110d.3 10 4 4 Qwrtor old pigs 21 0 28 0
TOTAL SUPPLY. I POILIGION SUPPLY.
Beasts ..•••••• •• ...... 6,45! f Itcaats•• .. •• •• •• •• .. • 2,635

Sheep .• • •
Calves
490 , ..... ....... 125
A rtatement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market. on
Monday, Oct. 10, 1553, and this day, Monday, Oct. 9,
1854. Per 81bs, to sink the offals.
Oct. 10, 1853. lOct. 9, 1854
s. d. s. d. d. s. d
Coarse and inferior beasts ... 2 10 to 3 213 oto 3 2
Second quality ditto ... ... 3 4 3 6:3 4 3 8
Primo large oxen ... 3 S .4 013 10 4 6
Prime Scots, ctc 4 2 4 4 1 8 410
Coarse and inferior sheep ... 3 0 3 4 3 0 3 4
Second quality ditto 3 6 3 1013 6 3 8
Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 0 4 6,3 10 4 4
Prime Southdown ditto .. 410 5 2;4 6 410
Lambs ..................0 0 0 010 0 0 0
Large coarse calves 3 8 4 oi3 2 310
Prime small ditto 4 2 4 84 0 4 6

Largo hogs 3 8 4 2j
Neat small porkers ... 4 4 5 0'
Beasts... 5,937
Sheep ... ... 29,830
Calves... ... ... 398
SUPPLIES ON SALE, Oct. 11, 1852.—Beasts,
27,990 ; calves, 227; pigs, 370.
October 13, 1851.—Beasts, 4,601; sheep, 28,
230 ; pigs, 580.

3 2
,4 6

4 4
6 0
6,451
33,300
218
490

;,107 ; sheer,

,270; calves,

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Theso markets are tolerably well, but not to say heavily,
supplied with meat for the time of year. Prime beef,
veal, and pork are in good request, at very full prices.
Otherwise the demand is in a sluggish state.

Per Sibs by the eareabe.
s. d. s. d.
Beef, interior 3 0 3 4
Do., middling 3 6 310 I
Do., prime largo 4 0 4 4
Do., do. small 4 6 4 8
Pork, large 3 4 4 4

Mutton, Inferior
Do., middling
Do., prime
Veal

0. d. s. d.
34 3 6
~3 8 4 2
~4 4 4 8
.3 0 4 4
~4 6 5 2

Pork, small

BORO UGH HOP.

We have a dull market for nearly all kinds of hops, yet
very little change has taken place in the quotations. New
qualities have sold as under :—East Kent pockets, 18118 s
to 2jl Os ; 'Weald of Kent ditto, 181 ISs to 211 Os ; Sussex
ditto, 1810 s to 2010 s per cwt. Last week's imports amount-
ed to 274 bales from Ostend, 276 from Antwerp, 1,433
from Hamburg, 50" from Boulogne, andl2 from Calais.