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London, England, 1841-01-13 00:00:00

and letting his head hang down, fixing his head in a noose,
&c., when the noose suddenly slipped tight, and he hung
su,pended. The spectators thinking this merely one of
his ordinary feats, vociferously applauded him, when it
was perceived that he was turning black in the face, and
an alarm was raised that the diver was strangling. A
moment afterwards Scott made a desperate effort to extri-
cate himself, by flinging his feet up aloft, and managed to
loosen the rope and get his neck out. In answer to the in-
quiries of the crowd below, as to whether he was injured—
Scott replied in the negative, exclaiming, " The hemp
that is to hang me is not grown yet." It is a singular fact
that the subscripain in his behalf among the spectators
amounted to nearly double upon this occasion to what it
had done before. Tisis is a striking illustration of the de-
praved taste of sight-lovers in England, for the greater
the danger the more liberal arc they in their rewards.

LOSS OF THE THAMES STEAMER

ON THE SCILLY ISLANDS.

[FURTHER PARTICULARS.]
News was received in Liverpool yesterday morning
of the loss of the steamer Thames, Captain Grey, ply-
ing between London and Dublin, on the rocks of Rose-
vere, one of the Silly Islands, yesterday week, and of
the destruction of the captain, crew, 14 passengers, and
a number of recruits, making a total of at least 60
souls ! We have been favoured with two accounts of
this deplorable event, the former being the substance of
accounts received in this town from various quarters,
and the letter being an extremely interesting account
from the pen of a gentleman residing in the Island of St.
Mm y. They are as follows :
We regret to have to state the loss of the steamer
Thames, on the morning of Monday, the 4th inst. on the
Scilly Island rocks. it would appear, from the situation
in which the hull of the Thames was placed, and from
the statement of the man who was saved, that the com-
mander had mistaken the Scilly Lights for those of the
Long-ships : the commander, Grey, expecting the vessel
would have floated next tide, as she made no water, re-
'named on board, keeping the other boats of the vessel
by him. It appears that several of the crew, having
tuk,Ji one of the boats, left the vessel, but the Captain
having prevailed on them to return and take the three
females who were on board, they did so, when a number
of recruits having jumped in, the boat was swamped, ar.d
all List. A shore boat then came to the vessel, and the
three fern des were taken from her by means of booming
the boat (A. so as to prevent a similar accident from a
rushing of the other persons on board. The vessel
went on the rocks about five o'clock in the morning,
after a tremendous night of snow squalls and much
lightning-. A strong north-east wind setting in wiih the
flood tide, and the vessel having unfortunately listed to
windward, from being smooth water a heavy sea arose,
and the vessel was lost with those that remained on
board, including the Captain, remainder of the crew,
four cabin passengers, and eleven deckers, with seine
recruits.

" St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, 6th January, 1841.
" Gentlemen,—l beg the liberty of sending you an
account of the total loss of the Thames steamer, of Dub•
lin, which sailed from that port for Plymouth and Lon-
don on Saturday afternoon the 2d instant, with a gene-
ral cargo, and sixty-five souls on board including crew
and passengers, and dreadful to relate, only four persons

save-d. From the evidence of the survivors, taken be-
fore a jury, summoned this day, to inquire into the death
of those bodies lound on shore, which at present amount
to nine men and one woman, it appears that the ship
was a great way out of her course, and when she made
the Scilly Light mistook it for that of the Long•ship
Light at the Land's End. The seaman saved says the
Light was in sight when he came on deck at 4 a.m. (of
Monday the 4th inst.) but how long the light bad been

seen previous he could not say, and that the other sailors
said it was the Long•ship's Light, but about half an
hour after she shipped a sea that filled her, and stopped
the engines ; they then discovered the rocks around
them, and that it must be Scilly ; the captain had sail
put on her, the ship became quite unmatiagt able, and
about five o'clock struck on some rocks near an unin-
habited island called Rosevere. A boat from St.
Agnes, the nearest inhabited island, went to the ship,
at imminent risk, and succeeded in taking off the wreck
a Miss Morris, one of the passengers, and the two stew-
ardesses ; the boat dared not near the ship fearing a
rush from those on board, they had therefore to draw
the females through the sea by a rope fastened round
the waist one end on board the ship—the other end
the boatmen had ; this was about half past eight o'clock
a.m., and shortly after a very heavy hail storm came
on, w hen all hopes vanished of having any more assist-
ance from slime ; the flood set in, and the wind in-
creased to a heavy gale, with very severe hail storms
from N.E. to E. N.E., the boat which had the survivors
on board, and another boat attempting to make the ship
were both nearly lost, the former was not found till
some hours alter by a large pilot boat, when the people
were taken on board and the boat towed into St. Ag-
nes ; the scene of the wreck is about three miles to the
N.V. of that island.

The ship had only two boats ; one was stove in by
a sea, the other some recruits gut into, and lowered
her into the water beturn any on board were aware of
it ; two gentlemen jumped tur her, but jumped short,
sank, and were seen no mere ; the recruits not being
able to manage the boat, she soo❑ filled, went down,
and they also soon perished. Thus were sixty or seventy
human creatures left without any means of saving them-
selves, and in such a dangerous place, three miles from
any inhabited island, and, after nine o'clock, a.m. no
hope whatever of any assistance from the shore. The
seaman saved states that about ten a.m. the quarter-
deck began to give way (all under water forward), when
the captain with about twenty more got into the main
rigging. They were not long there before the main-
mast went overboard, and all soon perished, either
by drowning, or killed by the fall. At this time
there were many more on the quarter-deck, when
about eleven o'clock it was lifted up in a body
by the sea, and afterwards separated into several pieces,
en one of which this sailor stood with seven more fel-
low-creatures ; four only besides himself reached the
island, Rosevere, a short distance from the wreck), the
others were washed off whilst floating between the
wreck and the shore ; when the raft reached shore,
they were all washed off by a heavy sea, the man saved
fortunately got hold of a rack, held titl the sea receded,
and then scrambled a little higher up till he found he
was safe ; he then looked round for the others, but never
5,1 W thou). He soon began to look for shelter for the
night, when shortly he found a porter barrel ; he
knocked in the head, and crept into it, otherwise he
would likely have perished of cold, the night (Monday)
being very severe. Next morning, by break of day, he
was taken off, as were also the dead bodies of seven
men anif one woman ; two other dead bodies were ►eft
:hat day, (Tuesday .sth) in consequence of the wind
freshening, and a heavy sea round the rocks. The two
bodies lett yesterdly were brought to th:s is:dud to-
day, (IVednesday), the other eight were brought yes.
terday. The stewardess recognised the bodies of Jack,
(the steward), a seaman, Griffiths, a stoker, name un-
known, another seaman, named Quin, or Quinlan, be-
longed to Dublin ; another seaman, name unknown,
and one recruit. The female was the wife of a soldier,
who also perished, as did also the infant which the mei

thLr was suckling. 'lnc names of those saved are a
Miss Morris, whose father perished on board, a Mrs.
Aly.rs, first cabin stewardess, Mary Gregory, second
cabin stewardess, and J. Kearness,

" Unfortunately for this shipwreck, ail the large pilot
boats were high and dry when they would have been of
vast service ; for, had they been all Alt, they, early in
the morning—say from seven till nine o'clock—in all

likelihood would have saved every soul, as they are large
enough, and could have received the passengers and
cre.v from the smaller boats as they took them from the
ship, but this could not have been done later than half-
pa•t eight or nine o'clock. It Las been a most heart-
rending shipwreck. The frantic cries of the sufferers
could Le heard occasionally at St. Agnes. Ycu are at li-
berty to make any use of this communication you please,
only if published, I should wish that my name be with-
held. I have embraced the first mail leasing this for
the main after this melancholy occurrence, therefore
the information will he as early as any."

PENZA.NCE, JAN. 8.---The Scilly packet, after being
detained several days by contrary winds, arrived this
morning ; by her we hear of the loss of the Thames
Irish steamer, which took place about five o'clock on the
morning of Monday, the 3d inst. The Thames was on her
voyage from Dublin to London, and the weather being
exceedingly boisterous, with showers of hail and snow,
they lost their reckoning, and, mistaking the St.
Agnes (Scilly Islands) light for that of the longships
(near the Land's-end), ran on the Cribewidden rozk, and
in a short time became a total wreck ; out of about seventy
per.ons on board, only four were saved. These were
a young lady passenger (who with her father was going
t) London), two female attendants belonging to the
steamer, and one of the seamen. Soon after the vessel
struck she was discovered by the inhabitants of St. Agnes,
~nd one of the boats' crews, at the risk of their lives, im-
mediately put off to render assistance; they succeeded its
rciti la near her, and though there was scarcely a hope of
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WATCH YOUR DIVIDENDS.—The hoard raised
round St. Bartholomew's Church, which is so constructed
a to leave but a narrow passage between Threadneedle-
street and the Rotunda of the Bank, now converted into
the Dividend Pay.otEee,
is complained of as being in its
present state a public inconvenience. Besides, light being
c itircly excluded by the awsiing above, it affords facilities
kir the depredations of the class of thieves who never fail
watch the Bank at the periods of the year when the
lividends are in course of payment,