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Mr. Whitaker being her father) wade up a party of 9.6
eersons, all from Bury, and persuaded them to visit Wales.
It is remarkable, that out of the 26, Mr. Nuttall and
Miss Whitaker were the only persons saved.
When the vessel arrived off the floating light," says
Mr. Nuttall " the sea appeared rough, and Mr. Tarrey,
of
Bury, being, in common with others, greatly alarmed,
went down to the cabin, where the Captain was at dinner,
and requested him to put back. His reply was, t I 644;
there is a deal of fear nn board, and very little danger.
If we were to turn back with passengers, it would never
do,—we should have no profit.' The sea continued rough,
and the vessel made such little way that she continued
three hours in sight of the floating-light. The passen-
gers became very ill, and all expressed great anxiety to turn
hack, but the Captain still refused. He was repeatedly-
asked to make signals of distress, but he declined to do so.
Soon after nightfall, the vessel began to fill with water,
and the pumps were put to work, but it still gained on
them, and the Captain was requested once more to make
signals of distress. Had he done so, it was the opinion of
practical men at Beaumaris that all could have been saved.
He would not, however, make signals, neither would he
hang out a light, and the result of this obstinacy was, that
the vessel quitted her course, and struck at twelve o'clock.
The scene then was piteous in the extreme; fifty persons
were at once thrown into the sea, amidst the screams of
the survivors, by the lurching of the vessel. Long before
she struck, the passengers looked on themselves as lost,
and parents and relations were to be seen taking leave of
e :ch other."
When the vessel struck, the passengers rushed forward,
but the Captain ordered them aft, and on seeing hint con--
stilt with the mate, a gentletnan cried out, " It is all over
with us : the captain and mate are preparing to leave the
vessel." At that instant, no doubt from accident, the cap-
tain fell or tumbled overboard; and was the first person
drowned. Mr. Nuttall says he was intoxicated all the way.
The vessel continued whole until one o'clock, when she
broke, as it were, across, and the remainder of the pas_
stingers, with the exception of those saved, were hurried
into the sea. Before this direful event, the scene on deck
was heart-rending. The women and children collected
in a knot together, and kept embracing each other, keeping
up all the time the most dismal -lamentations. When tired
with crying, they lay against each other, with their heads
reclined, like inanimate bodies; but when the vessel went
to pieces, at half-past one, the shriek of anguish and tie-
spair was terrific sad deafening. At this awful moment
Mr. Nuttall was precipitated into the sea ; he. was en-
cumbered with all his clothes, a great coat, and, in aile dition to theses, a fine little boy took refuge on his back.
He could not swim, and must have sunk had not Previ-
dence thrown a rope in his way. He seized it eagerly,
and was guided by it to a part of the wreck that adhered
to the wheel of the engine. Here lie found Miss Whitaker,
a boy, and six others. They remained here, in the pre-
sence of death, until seven o'clock, In the hope of at-
tracting notice they hung out Miss Whittaker's shawl, and
this signal having been seen from the land, the life-boat
came off, end carried them from the wreck. Previous to
her arrival the tide had carried them out to sea, and they
must have soon perished, had not assistance arrived. It
was low water when the vessel struck. If we understood
Mr. Mittel' correctly, several of the ladies and children
were drowned in the cabin. The boy on his back was saved.
Such was the state of anxiety of the poor creatures,
who had been so long hanging to the wreck, that they
imagined when taken up at seven o'clock in the morning
that it was anon. One individual, rescued by the
schooner, bad totally lost his sight, and not being aware
of his misfortune his constant prayer was that the day.
might break.

(FURTHER. T. 4 KTIC (;LA RS. )
On the arrival of the news at Manchester, Mrs. War-
tenet-, the wife of a stone-mason, having relations in Li-
verpool, left Manchester immediately, and found that her
son, Robert Warrencr, hit wife, and child (eight months
old), her son Jam-es and his wife, were on board the un-
fortunate vrtiael, the whole of whom perished. With the
same party were Thomas Vouce, a bricklayer, from Man-
chester, end wife, and an individual whose name has not been ascertained, but we are informed that he is a widower.
At the house Gf Mts, Moir, N. 4, Hill-street North, a
distressing scene was to he witnessed—Mr. and Miss
Walmsley, from Bury, who were stopping here, had to
deplore the loss of eight relatives. They consisted of Mr.
Walmesley's brothev and sister, his son and his son's wife,
with their child, a nephew, Miss Lamb and Mr. Hitton.
Mr. lii%ton was about being married to Miss Walmesle.
''hey belong to the party of twenty.six from Bury.
Among the lost are Mr. Tarrey, from Bury, his wife,
and five children, his servant, and Miss Whitaker's son
(so we understood Mr. Nuttall.)
We have also to deplore the loss of Mr. James Leigh,
of Byrom • street ; and of Mr. Sousa, his brother-In-law.
They are much and destrwally regretted.
Alany must have 'been the painful and agonising scenes
on board during the awful call/114y it is our tas!t to
describt,,; none more so, perhaps, than that of Mr. Broad-
bast, of Sheffield, who was fated to witness the death of
his two daughters, very beautiful young women, whom,
with himself, he fastened to a plank, in the- vain hope of
reaching the shore alive, The pitiless buffetting of the
way a, however, destroyed these tender flowers, and left
the disconsolate father to deplore the bitter loss.

Second Edition, Journal Office, Five o'clock.
We have to correct an error in the tbregoing account.
The lady described as Mrs. Whitaker was Mrs. Payne, of
Salford. She was with her husband in the water eight
hours. By reading Mrs. Payne, in the first account, for
Mrs. Whitaker, the account will be correct, with this ad-
dition, that Mr. Payne, who was lashed to his lady, died
two hours before she was taken up.
Among the persons saved, for Broadhest read Broad-•
burst, and add to the list Mr. Whitaker, the brother of
Miss Whitaker. The Mr. Hammond mentioned in No.
12 of the bodies found was of Leeds, not Manchester.
The individual referred to on board the schooner has re-
covered his sight, and is doing well. It is John Whitaker.
Mr. Jones and Mr. Faulkes, we are happy to find, were
not passengers. They were seen on Wednesday at the
Blind School,
Mr. Haines writes yesterday to Mr. Watson (of the firm
of Watson and Pim), that three bodies were cast ashore :
A woman of the name of Jane Alexander, five pawn-
tickets in her pocket. •
Miss E. Broadhurst, of Sheffield.
A child, about two years old, with red shoes.
A lady, name not known.

Two carriages have been washed on shore, and two
bodies, near Penmanmiwr,—Mrs. Duckworth of Buryi
and Mr. Lucas of Dublin.
The Rev. Mr. Owen also writes to Mr. Watson, that a
female had been cast ashore at Conway, height about four
feet eight inches, from 17 to 20 years of age, dark brown
hair, general figure robust and fat, dressed in a black
bomb..zin gown, trimmed with crape, and a crape band,
round the waist, cotton stockings, marked E. B. 20, che-
f raise marked M. 8., a coral necklace of four links, in my
possession.
We think it right to add, that a brother of Mr. William
Watson, called on us this morning to complain of the men-
tion of the Rothsay Castle regarding her seaworthiness.'
She was, he assures us, only recently repaired, and was
every way seaworthy. She had also a boat on board,
which swamped with nineteen persons in her.

We regret to learn, that although the Minis.,
term are strongly disp,,sed to diminish the income of the
Bishopric of Derry, and to apply the saving to the increase
of Queen ANNE'S bounty for the relief of poor curates, an
obstacle of a very formidable nature has been presented
by the Church itself. Well would it be for the Church
could she perceive the necessity of a timely reformation.
All attempts to resist that which the nation feels to be ne-
cessary must, in the end, lead to the very result which is
so much an object of dread to our ecclesiastical rulers.
The demand far Parliamentary Reform on an extensive scale
ought to teach the Church the folly of resisting temperate
and necessary reformations.—. Times.
THE WICKLOW GOLD MINES.—Govern-
ment has, within these few months, entirely withdrawn
the military from all the posts which had, for so many
years. be as occupied for the protection of the mines in the
county of Wicklow. Thus the high road to wealth seems
to be complett,ly thrown open to the public, without the
interpositka of either a bridge or a turnpike. Such an
oppoi tunity was not to be resigned; and, accordingly,
*he country people may every day be seen raking the
sands, and rooting, like pigs, into the ground in search of
the moat precious of the precious metals. In several in-
stances small pieces of pure gold have been found, which
pat tial success has, of course, given the spur to increased
exertion,

BRUTAL INDIFFERENCE.--A short time
since a youth about fourteen years of age, who had a
vessel in charge, drowned himself in the Goole and Knot-
tingley canal, near to Newbridge. The body was disco-
, vered early on the Sungay following, and, disgraceful to
relate, some one having tied a rope to it, fastened the
other end cf the cord to the canal bank, leaving the body
to float in the water ! In this state it was allowed to re-
main until Monday afternoon, notwithstanding that seve-
ral packets with passengers by it, as well as other
boats. There is a public passedoue near to the spot, and
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