The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

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LONDON, Oct. 3.—Wind this day at noon, S. ;
fresh breeze and cloudy.
DOVER, Oct. 2. —Wind W.S.W.-Arrived—Edward
Heinrich, from Goole for Deptford, with loss of bowsprit,
from coming in contact with her Majesty's steamer Black
Eagle.

PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 2. —Win d W.S. W. —Arrived —Her
Majesty's steamer Avon from westward ; her Majesty's
steamer Alban, eastward.
SOUTRAiIPTON, Oct. 2.--Wind N.E.L-Sailed—Atr tto
(s); for St. Thomas, &c. The Central America (q), for New
York, foundered at aea, Sept. 12 ; a few of her crew and
passengers saved, in all about 100, out of 630 ; treasure
IJst.

Cowes, Oct. 2.—Wind W.—Arrived—Zwarmath,
from Surinan ; Argo (s), from New York, and left for
Havre.

PLYMOUTH, Oct. 3.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Clara
Wilhelmine, from Havana. _ _

QUEENSTOWN, Oot,. 2.—The Lord William Bentinck,
from Middlesborough for Quebec, foundered, Sept. 29, in
lat. 51 N., long. 12 W.; master and 16 men saved by the
Lucelle, arrived here.
CRONSTADT, Sept. 25.—The Kate Swanton arrived here
to•day from Havana, leaky, having struck on a rock south
of Lavenskai, 22.1 inst., and reports that about the same
time a full rigged vessel was seen to capsize and sink seven
miles south of Hogland.

DUNBAR, Oct.-2.—The Keepsake, from Quebec, which
went on shore here Sept. 19, has been got off very much
damaged ; part of cargo landed.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. I.—The Saucy Jack, hence. to Narva,
has been lost near Kimda ; crew and stores saved. The
Ellen Radford, for Valparaiso, has put back, making 17
inches water per hour, having been on shore ou Acklow
Banks. _

iirissr, Sept. 27.—The Pontus, from London for Stock-
holm, has been totally wreaked at the entrance of Faro
Sound.

HELSINGFORS, Sept. 29.—The Sykes, from Hull for
Vyborg, and the Alliance, from Hamburg for St. Peters.
burg, have been totally lost off Fredreiksham.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—The Maria, from Honduras for
Cork, was totally lost on the Northern Triangles about
Aug. 17 ; crew saved.

ANTWERP, Oct. 2:1-The Day Spiing, from London, put
back to Hong Kong Aug. 8, with mast sprung and other
damage; would discharg..

(PEE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, SAturlay Morning.
Wind N. N. W.
Arrived—Tit-Bit, from Para; Shipwith, Newfound-
rand.

Sailed—Rattler' scraw steamer, for Oporto ; Cintr
screw steamer, Lisbon; Asia, royal mail steamer, New
York.

Of Time, from Algoa Bay.

QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 1.

Wind N.N.W.
Arrived, Oct. 2.—Bospborne, from Cape do Verde.
Arrived, Oct. 3.—Conference, from Manila.
The Lord William Bentiuck foundered on September
29, in let. 51 N., 12 W. Captain Harvey and 16 men
saved by brig Lucille, now arriving hero.
HOLYHEAD, Oct. 2.

Wind W.N.W:
Arrived--Seaman, from Glasgow, for Rouen.

(Br SUBMARINE AND BRIIRSH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday, 9.30 a.m.
Wind W., tide two hours' flood, fresh, and fln3.
Arrived, Oct. 2—La Poule, from Cherbourg • Loisa
Wilhelm, Jamaica; Osprey, New York; WalClimarr,
Nykobing; Phantom, Malaga; Rovcions° Charlotte Town ;
Mary Ellen, Dbmerata ; Piglia Kenny, Odesoa.
Arrived, 00. 3—Trident steamer, from Twining; Tiger,
steamer, Tonuing.

DEAL, Saturthy, 9 a.m.
Wind W. ; moderate and fine.
Passed, Oct. 2—Gem of the Ocean, from Calcutta, for.
Hamburg ; Win. Bryan, from Honduras, for London.
Passed last night—Albanian (s. s.), from London, for
Liverpool.
Passed—Weser, from Quebec, for London.
Anchored—Ornen Danish, from Copenhagen, for Danish
West Indies ; A. R. Falek, from Amsterdam, for Liver-
pool • Aeor, for Cadiz; United, far Messina; Pet, for Port
Natal ; Mary J. Kemble, foe Rio Janeiro ; Tradesman,
for Port Talbot—all from London ; his Ina oerial Majesty's
Russian ship of war Buffalo, from Copenhagen, for Cher-
bourg.
Sailed —Dalcinee, for Bombay.

Tau INDIAN MUTINY.—The list of deaths published
yesterday contained the names of Captain Charles
Brownlow, 15th Regiment of Bengal N. 1., Dr. Mac-
lagan, and Mr. W. Edwards of the Bengal Civil Service ;
but letters have been received from each of those gen-
tlemen, informing their relatives of their fortunate
escape.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. —THE DAY OF HUMILIATION.
—The Lord Mayor and the corporation of the City of
London will go to St. Paul's in procession on foot on
Wednesday next, the day appointed for the general hu-
miliation, and all the shops will, of course, be closed
along the line of route. Plain service, as distinguished
from choral, will he performed, and the sermon in the
morning will be preached by the Very llsv Henry H.
Milman, D.D., the Dean of St. Paul's. At the after-
noon service, when the L-ird Mayor and corporation will
again attend, the sermon will ba preached by the lt,v.
Thomas Dale, M.A , vicar of S,. Pancras, the canon
residentiary. or by the Bishop of London. in the event
of his lordship having returned to London by that time.
MISS MADELINE SMITH.—Tho public may be prepared
to hear an astounding disclosure in a few days in con-
nection with the case of Miss Smith. We have been
informed, by a most reliable autholl'y, that one of th•
servants in the house at Blythswood-square in March
last, has just died rather suddenly ; and that, on her
death-bed, seized with remorse, she made a confession
of the important fact, that arsenic was mix,d with the
coffee given to L'Angelier on the night of his last visit
to Miss Smitb. On the trial it failed to be proved that
L'Angelier was at the house of his betrothed on the
night in question at all, although the servant who has
now made this disclosure was examined for the prosecu-
tion at the trial.--Belfast Mercury.

.APP-4LLING CALAMITY-WRECK OF THE
CENTRAL AMERICA-500.LIVES LOST.

In our last Amorirmn despatches the safety of
this United States mail steamship was despaired
cif; and have tiow,-by the arrival of the Arago
at Southam,,t,in last ev,l_,it!g, the melancholy par-
ticularA of tiro wr,ok of the v,sse,l, with a fearful
loss of life, and and-a qn :rtes millions of dol-
lsrs. The following is -extracted from the ./Vetv
York _Herald : •
On Saturday last,. the 12th instant, the United Stat,
mail steamship Central America, Capt. Herndon, boon
to New York, with the Pac fie mails, paagengere
crew to the eumber of some e:x hundred and twenty-five
persons, and treasure to the ame;tant.lef over tio.milliona
of dollars, foundered in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras.
Oa Tuesday, the Bth instant, the Central America, it
company wittilhe Empire City, left Havana for Nees.
York-, and np to the evening of that day they were in
sight of each other; but towards night the Central
America out-distanced her companion. On the follow-
leg evening a heavy gale set in from the north-west, and
continued without abatement until Saturday, the 12th
instant, when it increased to a perfect hurricane.
It is supposed that when the ill-fated Central America
mot the full force of the gale the was about fifty miles
ahead of the Empire City, and about a hundred and
fifty.milea to the wet of the island of New Providence,
between that island and the American coast. It is suppo;oe
by Mr. Roberts that the Central America must have
broken her machinery and drifted up. the Gulf Stream.
Her regular distance from the coast is about seventy-five
miles when running on her usual Coarse.
There is little doubt that the hurricane had a circeler
motion, or ww, in fact, what-is commonly called a whirl
wind. From the direction it took, it is probable that
the Central America-was caught in the very centre of
the whirl. The outer edge of the .whirlwind doubtless
rrack her on Wednesday, the 9th, the time which the
Empire City first experienced it, and from that time
until Saturday, the 12th, she must have gallantly battled
with it, until the centre reached her and she could no
longer hold oat against the terrors of this awful
phenomenon.
The extent of the gals must have been considerable,
for the Cunard eteanaship Persia experienced a heavy
touch of it on Friday, which literally'swept. her decks,
though her c eirse was a good deal to the northward of
the track of the Central America and Empire City. It.
fury reached as far south at least'as Wlnington, North
Carolina, where considerable damage was done to the
shipping from Friday to Saturday, and Wessels continue
to arrive daily at • this .and ,other po:te -with the 'effectt
s?cpsrieneed iu that terrible blow%
Tad lje-nti-al 'America was considered a stanch and
very, good ecaboat. She was built in' this city
in the year 1853 by] William H. Webb, called. the
George Law, and made her first voyage in September
of that year. - Her construction wad of the very best
description. She was diagonally braced with iron from
stem to stern, and was in all respects as stanch and safe-
as any ship ;float. There were on board of her six life-
boats, two of which were Francis's metallic boats, and
four with the patent air-tight tubes attached. Each one
was capable of holding fifty passengers. There were
also bet teen five and s:x hundred lie preservers on
board.

Her Captain, Commander Herndon, of the United
Sates navy, was a most prudent and efficient officer,
equal to any emergency; and it is satisfactory at least
to know that no danger which skil or forethought could
ward off, would have resulted so disastrously to the
unfortunate vessel. The Central America was not in..
sured, and the loss to the company cannot fall short of
$250,000 Sne is reported to have taken in $125,000
at Havana, in addition to the $1,600.000 she bad on her
original freight list ; and this added to say $300,000 in
the possession of passengers, would make the amount of
treasure lost little over two millions of dollars.
Not fir many years has a gale of equal severity deso-
lated our coasts as this oae by which the Central
America was destroyed. Every ship on the line of its
travel suffered severely, and the whole of the extent of
the damage done is not and never may be knoWn- - The
ocean for miles around was strewn with fragments of
wrecks ; and there is no doubt now that the portions of
wheelhouses, door panels, and furniture, seen by the'
ships Falcon and Commerce, belonged -in part to the
lost Central America.
The Empire City, in her efforts to get into shelter at
Norfolk, was compelled to burn her wheel-houses, tables,
chairs, and every available article of wood work to keep
her fires going.
The Columbia, a steamship, which. left New York
on Wednesday. the 9th, for Charleston, reached that
port with the greatest difficulty on Sunday. For 18
hours the tempset' beat down upon her, and every mc-
ment of that time she was-in imminent danger either of
capsising or foundering, every timber quivering under
the terrific fore° of the gale. But terrible as was the
force of the storm encountered by both these steamships,
the unfortunate Central America, whose loss has in-
flicted so much misery upon so many families in this and
other cities of the Union, must have been delivered up
to the fury of the tempest infinitely greater. The detailed
horrors of the scene of destruction we have yet to learn ;
but we shudder to think of the revelations yet to be
!bade—the magnitude of the loss; the protracted agonies
of the sufferers ; the struggles between hope and despair; '
the wild battling for life in the midst of death which
always characterises such scenes as this ; and, worst of
all; the end;ess sorrow which no balm can heal, that
must fail upon a thousand hearts and homesteads, as
each day's report confirms the dreadful aoticipatkon, or
dashes into frazmenser the last remnaet of a hope clung
.to with that desperate tenacity with which affect:on
endows the mourner. Viewing this appading calamity
in its too it favourable phase, all these-things must
tably result from it.

While too much regret cannot be expressed at the
fearful loss of human life by the foundering of the Cen-
tral America, it must not be forgotton that the lo.s of
the specie and maws will occasion much suffering. Aside
from the great inconvenience to the mercantile commu-
nity from the loss of the specie, there are hundreds of
letters from miners in California to their friends or fami-
lies here, containing remittances, the loss of which will
be deeply felt. Perhaps many familiss were depending
on these receipts for the payment of rent, or the pur-
cha.;e of %inter stores, the lack of which will occasion
much suffering, and form no little proportion in the un-
fortunate results of this terrible calamity.

TELEGR A.PHIC DESPATCHES.
NORFOLK, Sept. 18.
The Central America foundered at sea on Saturday
evening. last, at eight o'clock. Fifty passengers were
rescued from pieces of the wreck by a Norwegian barque
and brought into Hampton Roads. Twanty•s;x fentalas
were taken from the ship by a brig three hours previously.
The officers wera ail lost oxcept Mr. Frazer, second
officer. (Thief Engineer Ashby took a boat and deserted
the ship. I start for Nev York with the surviving pas-
sengers at 10 a,m.

J. M‘Gowarr,
Commander steam-ship Empre City.
The Empire City, with her sad freight, .will be due
here thie afternoon. I: is positively stated that all the
ladies and children who were pa,:sengcrs in the Central
America were saved on board thy brig Marine.
SAVANNAII, Sept. 18.
The bark Saxony arrived here this morning with five
of the painengers of the Cential America. She reports
the total loss of the vessel, treasure and mails, and about
500 of the oitsßengers and crew. She rep ,its that forty
women and children were saved by the brig Marine, of
Boston. The sea was very heavy. Forty-nine other
pasanivers of the Central America were picked up by the
bark Elise.

CURIOUS COINCIDENCII.
The announcement that the GO passengers of the ship
wrecked stearn,hip Central America had been picked up
by a ba,ple Elise, coupled with the fact that the Ham-
burg barque of that name is now due at this port; gavE-
strong credenc3 to the opini na that the latter was the
forunate va,sel. It proves, however, to have been the
Norwegian barque E ire, bound from Ilendurzs to Eng-
land. The coincidence is remarkable, from the fact rh&t.
the Hamburg barque Elise and the Bremen barque Elise.
were the ones that saved so many of the persol.s ship
wrecked from the French st .amer Lyonnais. The Bre
men barque E'ise, Captain Nordenblott, was the ye-eel
that first gladdened the eyes of the mate's boat, contain-
ing 16 of those on board the. Lyonnais, who, after shall:
doningthe skip, had been tossmg. about the open sea for
six
days.

The passengers were taken on board, suffering terribly
from exposure and cold. On the next day, in lat. 40 deg.
50m. N., long. 65 deg. 40m., the Hamburg barque Elise,
Captain Neilson, the one supposed to have saved the pas-
sengers of the Central America, was spoken, bound for
New York. Captain Neilson willingly consented to give
such-as desired it a passage to New York, all but two
of those saved availing themselves of the offer, and being
brought safely to New York.
The agents of the Franeo-American Steamship Co. in
this city properly rewarded the officers of the two
barques Elise for their services in saving and caring for
the passengers and crew of the Lyonnais. Capt. Neilson
was presented with 200 dollars in money and a splendid
silver trumpet, and his mate, Wiliam Dehn, received
50 dollars. The trumpet was a richly-chased and beau-
tifully-ornamented piece of work.
A similar present was male to Capt. Geo. Nordenba-
lott, of the Bremen barque Elise.
The name Elise proves to be a favourite in the north
of Europe, and there are several Norwegian barques
bearing it which have never come to this port. that
three vessels bearing the same name should have •Emen
instrumental in saving lives sapposed to have been lost
f
by shipwreck, must make it famous in the annals o
humanity.

A PASSENGER'S ACCOUNT.
Oliver P. Marlur, a passenger, gives the followirg
infonnation :—" Tae storm commenced immediately
after the steamer left Havannah, increasing until Friday.
On Friday afternoon all hands were called up to bale,
the ve3stl eintinued to ship water, and all hands workwi
with buckets, barrel,,, &c., al. Friday night and till abc.uL
2 o'c'ock on Sabi'. 'ay, when the brig Marine hove i%
night.;
all the ladies and children were put on board the
Marine about six o'clock p.m., and the chief ent.-; -
neer left witu h them. In launching the boats two f
the five of theta were stove, and the other
three were C.espatched with the women and children
about an Lour before sunset. The Marine
was lying nearly a mile off,
and by the time the three
boats reached her it became evident that the ship must
go down before they could get back. All hands then
seized
pieces of spare, chairs, and life preservers, while
others rushed below to secure their treasure. The con-
fusion now became great, though all acted with coolness,
each endeavouring to make the last effort for his own
safety. Now the vessel gave three lurches, some of the
Passengers jumping off at each lurch; those who jumped

off at the first and second lutcbes 5“, TO Off to isoms
distance, - but - the great
... ninss renlained on .ct o
until te to went down, which 3 ail SI 4or two
afterwards. I had provided rayse.if- whir a life-
preserver and a piece. of a spar, and determine l'to
go down with the vessel with the ;teat. -'inass of the
passengers; all of thenn.stood about he.:..ing themselves
up and securing those artiekis most volusole•to buoy
them up. The vessel went -do,:te,:;
was standing near the smoke :sr:: tiens_,', and we
were all dragged under the water with the €ir,krng s gip.
The general supposition is that w.:l werel.lldrascu,
the surface at least 20 feet, and v. hen wo rose we weee
nearly stifled ;. the rapidity .with which. I was drawd
down. tore tha spar from my. hands and- the lie-pre-
server, from my body, and when I reached 4-he surfa4
my clothing was all stripped if inc. -"I however 1214
a friend who had two life-preservers, who gave .ma
one, and we also sdzed on pieces of the wreck, .which'
helped to sustain it 3. About 400 of the passengas were
struggling about, most. of them baiting lost their Lir=
preservers, and others remaining op,pieces of the wreck,..
which came up with us. The boats Wain had cut array
the upper works of the ves3el,. so: that- when the WI
u:k they would float off, but they were dragged down,
but came up in fragments. Many persons were
stunned, and drowned by being struck with pieces of the -
wreck, while the pit c 33 v.e s to others the uliitnats
means of safety, ant occasionally a filth of lights
ring showed to each other a sea' of struggling foram
Each strove to encourage his friend with hopes
which he scar re felt himself. At first we were' all
together in a mass, but soon the waves separated us,
and at each successive flash of lightning we diecovered
that wo were being scattered over a wide area, and
soon found ourselves apparently, alone on the boundless
ocean..

Tao rest of this account :does not cliff: 1r trim that
already received. He concludes Ly saying about 10
o'clock he was ricked up_by the bark _nen, and had
the satisfaction of finding others on board her.
The steamship •EMpire City left Norfulk yesterday at
11 o'clock a.m., with many of the rescued pivsengers.

LIST OP THOSE KNOWN TO BE LOST.
Wm. Lee,_Canada ; Benjamin Colt Hancsck, county,
Illinois; Hanson and John Herne, Mi6sourie ' • Richard
Wilton Quincy, Illinois James E. Burch, United
States mail contractor, Fall River ; .Gabriel Brush, bag-
gage master, New York-; ()barks Taylor, NOrth Caro.-
I.na ; Samuel Shrive, San Francisco; Dr. Byanni, do. ;
Dr. Gibbs and Mr.-Marin, California ; Mr, Parker', Situ
Francisco ; Mr. Booker, Boston ; Purser Dobbin Olotber
of the late*Secrotary of the Navy), North Carolina; Mr.
White, Sacramento ; Punerilull; of the -I,teamer Cenfrel
America, New York ; Mr. Uull(brother of the purser),
San Francisco, California;: Mt: Van Retaallaer, first
officer of the steamer; Captain W. L. Hertador,-United
States' Navy, commander of the steamer ; and James
T. Tennison, doo;or of the steainfir.
The Norwegian barque, at Norfolk, is the barque
nen, Captain A. Johnson, frOm Beliz r, Honduras, and
not ths,bar qtie Eloise, se was reported._