The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-15 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE SHIP WILLIAM

BROWN.
HAvar, MAY 13.—The American ship Crescent, Captain
Ball, arrived here yesterday evening with the remainder of the
passengers of the William Brown who were saved in the long-
boat. The arrival of this vessel has confirmed all the horrid
details given of the dreadful scene which took place during tho
night of the 20th and 21st of April. Of the sixteen pas-
senger. who were thrown into the sea, fourteen were men
and two women ; of the seventeen saved, fifteen are women
and two are men. One of these men was seized for the
purpose of being thrown overboard by the crew of the boat.
He cried out to the mate to save him, and not to tear him
from his wife. The mate told the men not to separate
man and wife if it were possible to help it. He fell into the
bottom of the boat, and was saved. A boy of twelve years
old was thrown overboard. He caught hold of the boat, and,
favoured by the [darkness of the night, crouched under the
bows, and was saved. All the women saved are young, except
the mother of a Scotch family from Dumfriesshire, who, with
her five daughters and a servant girl, was saved, her name is
Edgar. Her husband and son are settled in German-town,
near Philadelphia. A young woman with her infant at the
breast suzceeded in getting into the boat with her husband ;
they are amongst the survivors. His name is Patrick, from
Cook's-town, county Tyrone, the property of Col. Stewart.
Several persons from that gentleman's estate or neighbour.
hood have met with a watery grave. One family of the
name of Leyden (sixteen in all) sunk with the vessel; an-
other, named Corr—father, mother and five children—sunk at
the same time ; the little boy who was thrown from the boat
was one of that family. He had not a soul left belonging to
him. They were also from Colonel Stewart's preperty. A
Mrs. Anderson, with three children, who was going to join her
husband, a medical gentleman settled at Cincinnati, sunk with
the ship. Miss Anderson and a Miss Bradley were thrown
into the sea from the long-boat. The tales which the survivors
relate are piteous and. horrifying. The crew and passengers
have beets examined by the British and American Consuls this
morning, and the impression is, that the dreadful act of throw-
ing their fellow-creature overboard was of imperious necessity ;
but it is to be hoped that the two Consuls will give publicity to
the examination, in order that the public mind may be satisfied
on this point.

PENZANCE.—A few days back a gentleman
called at the houce of a merchant in this town, and requested
an interview with one of the principals, in which he stated,
that having been involved some years since in pecuniary diffi-
culties, his creditors had accepted a composition of 15s. in the
pound. From that time Providence has blessed his temporal
concerns, and his object in calling was to pay the balance of his
account. He had had the pleasure of paying all his creditors
Nan industrious working man, and
tfiind.Thursday, about
in t ull, except one, whom he could not
otmrth• eSor
st,ciwloo
were enraged
asl N yo
hAn
iCnCd Revell,li
grivel in Frost's pit, on Black-
heath, and had undermined a shelving of some extent, symp-
toms of a slip was ildicated ; and the workmen on the spot re-
treated, with the exception of Revell, who was unfortunately
buried alive under a mass of twenty tons of gravel. Every ex-
ertion was made to extricate the •sufferer, and through the
activity of tthe persons congregated, in about twenty minutes
the body of Revell was dug out, but life was extinct.
POISONING A FAMILY.--The family of Mr.
Joseph Powell, farmer, of Edmonton, have within the
last few days miraculously escaped being poisoned to
death. The particulars, as far as they have transpired,
are as folloW :—Mrs. Powell, who is in a delicate state of
health, has been accustomed to take for supper a basin of
new milk boiled. This was brought to her by the female
servant on Tuesday night last. She took a spoonful or
two, and complained that the taste was disagreeable, and
that it made her feel sick. Her two sons each tasted it.
They then called in the girl, and desired her to do the
same, but she manifested great reluctance, and said that
she had had her supper, and had no wish for anything
more. The mistress and her sons then said, "If you
do not taste a spoonful or two, we shall think you have
put something bad in it ;" upon this she took a portion,
when they all because ill,• Mrs. Powell alarmingly so,
belieg siezed with violent retelling, and complaining of
and stoma-.
burning pain in the throat • A medical man
was immediately sent for, and partial relief was afforded,
but the life of Mrs. Powell is considered in much dan-
ger ; she is unable to leave her bed. The servant t girl,
The also, is in a precarious state. basin containing the
milk has been preserved, and found to contain arsenic, as
well as the pan from whence it was taken. There is
much mystery in the transaction. The girl is too ill yet
to give any testimony.
13RA nFottp.—The inhabitants of this place
have not been idle ; they are looking with intense interest, to
the struggle that is about to take place in Parliament on the
subject of the Corn-laws, and a petition praying for the repeal
of them is in course of signature.— ll'ilts Independent.
The best definition Boswell could obtain of the
word taste, after asking many literary men of the day,
was the following one by Lord Stowell----c, That faculty
of the mind which leads a Scotchnian to prefer England
to his own country."