The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-16 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S AMP.HITHEA7RE.

Mr. E. T. Smith has again thrown open the
doors of this favourite theatre, and commenced his
winter season with great succ:ss. He has revived
the celebrated spectacle " Mazeppa," the principal
part in whichis supported by Mdlle. Lillian. This
lady has taken Adah Isaac Menken for her model ;
her impersonation of the part is quite up to that of
her predecessor, indeed in some parts it is much
superior. The spectacle has been revived in
all its original splendour, and its representation
calls forth the most enthusiastic applause. Mr.
Smith also gives his patrons a capital burlesque on
the well-known story of "Blue Beard," which is
very tastefully produced, and altogether the per-
formances at Astley's are of a class that deserve
very general support. Mr. E. T. Smith is already
at work on his pantomime; and, if report speaks
true, the production for the approaching holiday
season will eclipse all his former triumphs.

LOSS OF THE ROYAL STANDARD AUSTRA-

LIAN SHIP.

Advices received yesterday from Rio Janeiro
communicate the painful intelligence of the total
loss of the ship Royal Standard, on the Brazilian
coast, while on her outward voyage from London
to ➢Melbourne. Many of her passengers, chiefly
females, were drowned, and several of the crew
were missing. The Royal Standard was originally
built as a steamer of nearly 3,000 tons measure-
ment, and made several successful voyages between
Liverpool and Australia. Recently she has been
converted into a sailing ship, and was owned by
Messrs. Wilson and Co., merchants, of Liverpo.)l.
She sailed from Gravesend on her present voyage on
the 12th of August, with a full general cargo, and
about twenty-eight chief and second cabin pas-
sengers ; the number of people in all on board,
including officers and crew, being about eighty.
Lloyd's agent at Rio Janeiro forwards the follow-
details of the catastrophe :
" Rio Janeiro, Oct. IG.

" Having this morning returned with the pas-
sengers saved from the cutter of the British ship
Royal Standard, Captain Clarke, from Lend ,n to
Melbourne, wrecked on the sand bank, running
from 20 to 25 miles, off Cape S. Thome, about 151
miles distant by water from this port; and feeling
assured that a painful interest will be excited in
London when the news arrives there, I address you
these lines to furnish you with all detailed informa-
tion I have obtained on the melancholy subject.
On the wreck being made known here at four p.m.
on the 12th inst., 1 chartered the steamer Competi-
tion, and proceeded at once to the spot.
"The Royal Standard was dismasted on the
30th September. She was immediately put under
jurymasts, and Mr. Bailey, the chief officer, in-
formed me she steered very well under this tempo-
rary aid. The captain's intention was to bring the
vessel into Rio Janeiro, but just before daylight on
Sunday, the 10th inst., and when they supposed
themselves far from land, the ship suddenlystrauded
on the sand bank above named. After daylight the
captain, on seeing the long, low coast of sand about
five or six miles off, called the Furago, decided on
sending the women and children ashore in the
only boat they had left fit for the purpose (the cut-
ter) ; the other boats but one were stove in when
the ship was dismasted, and in this cutter, at about
10 a.m., left the ship w.* i 23 persons, in charge of
Mr Bailey, the chief mate—viz., Mrs: Dunnuett,
five daughters, and ene son, Harry, Mr., Mrs., and
Miss Lawrence, Miss 'Weston, Miss Stoddart, Mrs.
Miller, Mrs. Rees, Mrs. Northcote, Dr. Cortes, Jas.
Young, the sail maker, and five seamen. All they
took with them on leaving the ship was a tin of
small biscuits, but no water, presuming they would
land in one or two hours ; but on approaching the
shore they discovered such a line of breakers that
they dared not attempt a landing, till driven to des-
peration, on Monday, the 11th inst., at daybreak,
by hunger and thirst and the horrors of their situa-
tion, the currents, sea, and wind baffling all attempts
to regain the ship. On their beaching the boat Mrs.
Dummett and her five daughters, Miss Lawrence,
and Miss Stoddart, were drowned.
" After much toil and suffering over about 15
miles of burning, arid sand, the remainder
reached a miserable hut, occupied by a negro, who,
on the following day, took them to the estate and
residence of the Viscountess Ararnarno, through
whose real Samaritan hospitality and kind atten-
tions they reached Macalie on the morning of
the 13th.

" Captain Clarke, wife and child, and 21 of the
passengers and crew were taken of the wreck by the
Brazilian brigantine Camponeza, and another por-
tion of the crew and passengers found their way to
Rio Janeiro in the Portuguese ship Amelia, whose
captain deserved great credit. lie ordered a second
attempt to rescue those still on the wreck, and sent
his long boat and nine Portuguese, two of the crew
of the Royal Standard volunteering. But this
boat did not succeed in getting alongside the
wreck, when the captain of the Amelia was
forced by his passengers to haul away from the
edge of the bank ; consequently had to abandon
not only the wreck, but his own men in the
boat. Fortunately the boat afterwards effected
a safe landing on the coast some 15 miles south of
Macalie, which they gained on the 14th inst. The
remainder of the orew and passenger 3, twelve in
number, left the wreck on a raft, and have not since
been heard of. I have despatched the Competition,
steam tug, to go in search along the coast.

" Her Majesty's ship Speedwell, Captain Perry,
left Rio Janeiro for the scene of the wreck imme-
diately on the receipt of the news, and took off the
shipwrecked people from the Brazilian, brigantine,
as well as five seamen from the stranded cutter.

" The Royal Standard when last seen had broken
in two. The bow was sunk and the stern was fast
settling down in the sands in about 23ft. of water.
Nothing whatever belonging to her had been
saved."

One of the survivors of the crew (the engineer)
reached Liverpool on Sunday night, and communi-
cated the particulars of the loss to Messrs. Wilson
and Chambers, the owners. It appears that Mr.
Dummett, one of the passengers, was saved, al-
though he lost all his family. ILI was a sugar
broker of Mincing-lane. The names o► his family
were—Mrs. Ilentietta, his wile, aged 38 ; Miss
Florence, aged lo ; Miss Louise, aged 9 ; Miss
Jessie, aged 7 ; Miss Vivian, aged 5 ; and Miss
Daisy, aged 3. The other two passengers drowned
were Miss Stoddart, the daughter of a clergyman
at Camden-town, and Miss Lawrence was from
Sheerness.

The Royal Standard bad four iron bulkheads.
She was built by Messrs. Palmer, at Jarrow, near
Newcastle ; she was 255 feet in length, 40 feet in
bea►v, and 27 feet 5 inches in depth. The owners
are represented to be fully insured in London and
Liverpool.

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