The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-09 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, MONDAY` EVENING MiARCH 9, 1846

LOSS OF THE GREAT LIVER-
POOL.
On Saturday intelligmve reached town of the total less
•of the Great Liverpool steamer, which touk place on the
24th of' February, off Cape Finisterre, by getting on
shoals, at four in the morning. The catastrophe .ap-
pears to have been wholly the result of accident. It is
said that no blame whatever attaches to Captain M'Lcod,
the commander. Only three lives were lost, although
it is stated there were about one hundred and fifty souls
on board. Mrs. Archer, from Bombay, a Miss Morris,
aged seven, and an Indian female servant, were the three
that perished by the swamping of the boat, while at-
tempting to escape. Seventy-nine of the passengers
and twenty-one of the crew have arrived at Southampton
by the Paella, which also had a narrow escape of being
wrecked, having run on shore off Oporto. In the letter
which follows, addressed by the captain to Mr. Allan,
secretary of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga-
tion Company, there will be found a full account of the
circumstances under which the catastrophe took pla-e.
Among the passengers saved are—Captain Wright,
Captain Arrow Ft,aron Bowen, Messrs. Homorton,
Pugh, and Laforque; Mesdatnes Dunbard, Bradford,
Prole, Laforque, Fearon, Edmonds, Dick, 13 children,
and 14 female servants.
"LOSS OF THE GREAT LIVERPOOL.
" Vice-Consulate-office, District of Corcubion,
Feb. 28, 1846
"JAMES ALLAN, ESQ., SECRETARY TO THE PENINSULAR

Company's service, and was considered ono of its most
able commanders.

LOSS OF THE CATARAQUE, EMI

GRANT SHIP.
Lloyd's agent at Melbourne, New South Wales, in a
lettor dated the 4th October last, received on Saturday,
furnishes a little additional information respecting the
lamentable loss of the ship Cataraqw, her crew and pas-
sengers,upon King's Band.

The Colonial Government had taken steps for the in-
terment of the shipwrecked dead, and for the erec-
tion of a tablet to mark the spot, and to record the
calamitous event. At a public meeting convened upon
the occasion, it was observed that the fittest monument
to commemorate such a melancholy loss of life, would be
one which should guard against the future occurrence of
similar catastrophes, by the erection of a light-house by
Government, either upon the island or Cape Otway.
Imperatively as a light-house is required on one or
other of those positions, to serve as a guide to the
western entnince of Bass's Straits, there appears, it is
said, to be but little prospect of its erection, although the
occurrence of five wrecks upon King's Island since the
year 1835 would seem sufficient evidence to convince
the Government of its necessity. The Neva, with female
convicts, in 1835, the Harbinger in 18—, the Isabella in
1840, the Rebecca in 1843, and the Cataraque in 1545,
have all been totally wrecked on King's Island. With
reverence to these wrecks, Lloyd's agent remarks that
the sailing direction for Bass's ‘traits appears to him to
excite an unnecessary fear of approaching themain land
of Australia on account of the swell prevailing from the
S.W., and that the swell is quite as dangerous if King's
Island be approached to:. closely, for that the Neva and
Isabella were both driven on shore by it. The inter-
colonial traders have no such fear of approaching the
main land, and constantly coast from port to port: in
Australia. Instead, therefore, of vessels approaching the
Straits in lat. 40 deg. south, it would appear safer for
them to sight the main land somewhere between Kangaroo
Island and Cape Nelson, and from thence to take afresh
departure for Cape Otway.
Lloyd's agent also observes that the lighthouse would
be of more general service if placed upon Cape Otway,
in preference to King's Island, and an additional reason
for its being so place, arises from the circumstance of
King's Island being within the jurisdiction of Van
Diemen's Lund, which, in these neglected colonies,
would occasion the loss of much time before arrange-
ments could be made between the two governments
(New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land) for its
erection there. In illustration of this reason, it is ob-
served that the matter was taken in hand by both go-
vernments in 1842, but that nothing whatever has been
done up to the present date.
A public subscription for the benefit of the survivors
of the Cataraque had been opened, and realized 1511. 35.,
which had partly been expended in that manner, and the
remainder to Mr. Howee, and his party, who supplied
them with provision, &c.

The wreck of the Cataraque and remaining cargo had
been sold for 861.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, MARCH 6.—We stated on Tuesday
that our market showed some increase of business
in goods ; and this has continued to be the case
since then. The purchases are almost entirely for
exportation ; the home trade being exceedingly stag-
nant. In prices there is some irregularity, though
general quotations scarcely vary at all. The improve-
ment is but slight, however, and the week must be re-
ported a dull and anxious one. Yarns are exceedingly
flat, and prices scarcely steady at previous rate. Not-
withstanding the greater facility in obtaining discounts,
and the somewhat more favourable rates at which they
may be effected, money continues very scarce in this
neighbourhood, and the recent failures occasion a good
deal of apprehension. The state of our relations with
the United States, and the position of the corn-law
question, tend also to hinder the growth of confidence.
MANCHESTER PRODUCE MARKET.—There has been a
good demand for sugar this week, and 700 bags white
Bengal, at auction, on Thursday, sold with spirit at full
prices ; from 51s. 63. to 535. 6(i. ; with damp, from 51s.
to 525. The attendance of buyers was numerous, not
only from the immediate locality, but also from the
neighbouring towns. A further quantity is announced
for sale next week, and the trade are now relying upon
a constant supply. A large business has been done in
refined goods, at an advance of 61 to Is. per cwt. The
tea market is quiet ; about 300 chests of congou are
announced for sale on the 19th instant. Nothing wor-
thy of notice is passing in the silk market : a small
public sale of China is announced for Thursday next.
BRADFORD, MAZCH S.—WOOL.—Onr market is still
heavy ; so little being consumed, compared with this
period of 1845, and of some kinds the market is not
abundantly stocked ; prices exhibit no material change.
YARNS.—The state of the yarn trade is without a pa-
rallel, notwithstanding the diminished production, of
machinery totally idle, and the rest only partially em-
ployed, no stimulus is given to improve this distressed
branch of our trade, and the spinners are really weary
of their profitless avocation. PIECES.—There is nothing
different this week, the merchant; buying only for pre-
sent wants ; and export houses are steadily lookilt on,
we hope, contemplating renewed activity.—Bradford
Observer.

NOTTINGHAM, MARCH s.—There are several symp-
toms of a partial revival in this market ; buyers are
beginning to appear from London and the country, and
others are expected from Germany, preparatory to the
Leispic fair. The news from Australia is not considered
bad for trade. A good many things are changing
hands, but at low prices. In no department of lace
goods are stocks heavy, either at home or abroad ;
neither are yarns lowered in any material degree ; but
all parties buy with extreme caution, ands are likey to
do so throughout the present crisis. —Notts. Mercury.
LEICESTER, MARCH s.—The home demanJ still re
mains flat. The news from America will also suspend
the manufacturing for that market, usually commencing
a. this season. Yarns remain dull without alteration in
price. A fair business continues doing in wools; noils are
scarce and command better prices.—Leicester Journal.
BRISTOL SCGAR-MARKET.—Rather more disposition
has been shown to do business this week, and prices Vare
decidedly firmer. The transactions reported amount to
about 420 hhds. West-India, 3,000 cwts. Mauritius,
and 500 Bengals ; but for the latter description of
sugar the demand is still dull, although decidedly the
cheapest in proportion to the prices ruling for the sorts.
Refined goods are in improved demand.—Bristol Mer.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The following distin-
guished personages were present on Saturday night :—Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
attended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, Baron Knesebeck, and
Mr. Edmund Mildmay, his Royal Highness Prince George,
the Duke of Wellington, the Marquises of Clanricarde and
Titchfield, the Marchioness of Westmeath, the Earls of
March, Lonsdale, Munster, and Falmouth, the Dowager
Countess of Essex, Baron and Baroness Brunnow, Count de
Kielmansegge, Baron Rehausen, Count de Jarnac, Count de
Noailles, and Marquis de Pallavacino, Lords Somerton, Suf-
field, Henry Vane, and Foley, Ladies Meux and Goldsmid,
Hon. Mr. Arbutlinol-, Hon. Mrs. Fitzgibbon and Miss Foley,
Sir H. Webb. Major Baring, and Sir Henry Gordon, Mrs.
Beauclerk, Colonel Fitzgibbon._
Bliss. TROLLOPE'S NEW WORK, " THE ROBERTS'S ON
THEIR TRAVELS," will be generally regarded as one of this
popular writer's most successful works. Her caustic powers
are exerted in it to their full scope; and while the vulgarities
and absurdities of "The Roberts's" during their grand tour
in France, Germany, and Italy, are as amusingly sketched as
can well be conceived, the moral purpose of the story (which
is not its least recommendation) is never lost sight of. The
Quarterly Renew has observed of Mrs. Trollope, that "she is
beyond a doubt one of the cleverest and most remarkable
writers of the day. With a quickness of observation which
takes in the whole object at a glance, an insight into motives
that seems instinctive, a keen perception of the ridiculous,
and strong powers of humorous delineation, she is the person
of all others to expose pretensions, or unmask hypocrisy."
These remarks could not be better applied than in the case of
" The Roberts's on their Travels."

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London.
THE con3titution breaking
THE LATE OUTRAGE AT DEPTFOItD —On Saturlay
morning, at Southwark Police- court, information was brought
to the magistrate that the policeman, James Hastie, of the
Il division, had died at G
in-
flicted on him at Deptford. The unfortunate man was so
dreadfully wounded that he has been quite incapable of
giving any intelligent account of the affray which caused
his death. It appears that about a week previous to the
affair he had taken two or three men into custody for
creating a disturbance near the spot, where he was afterwards
attacked. The men were fined at the time, and it seems that
this act excited revengeful feelings against him, and that his
late assailants were, in some way, mixed up with the pre-
vious affair, and had on that account attacked him. He
was a stout, hale man, about 35 y-ears of age, and has since
suffered most severely. Mr. Payne, the coroner, has ap-
pointedq7SesLlN T 01,7.-0 n Sit ur-
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'for soma time past, lived un-
happily a most determined case of self-deisttir,ueert.itoeirtratc,,o:ltslahc„getoant. the
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happily together, in consequence of the intemperate habits of the
latter. Mr. James went into the Prince Albert, in the same stre+t,
and there found a heavy bill duo for liquors supplied to his wife ; he
then forbade the supply of any more on credit ; and on his return
home a quarrel ensued, and Mrs. James threatened to leave him on
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the morrow. Similar tai: cuts having before been held out, no atten-
tion was paid to the present. At two o'clock Mrs. James was seen
by an opposite neighbour engaged in writing, and soon after three
o'clock her servant girl ran into the Prince Albert, exclaiming that
her mistress was destroying herself. Mr. Thorpe, the landlord, im-
mediately went into the house, where he found Mrs. James suspended
to the bed-rail. It appeared that she hail first opened a vein in her
arm, but not hitting on the artery, she found she could not in this
lyay effect her purpose. She then attempted to strangle herself with
one of l;cr garters: this also failing, she next tried a piece of tape ;
and at last resorted to a silk handkerchief, with which she accom-
plished bar dreadful purpose. On Mr. Thorpe cutting her down, life
was quite extinct. The note she was seen writing was to her huts,
band, and to the effect that she could bear it no longer, and request-
ing her clothes might be Oven to her sister.