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OCTOBER 17, 1842.

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TOTAL WRECK: OF A FIRST. _.
CLASS STE AME R.
13IUSTOL, SATMIDAY, OCT. 13.—A letter was re-
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' ceived this therning at the Commercial-rooms :here,
... stating that the new iron steamer Brigand had beam
lost on Wednesday on the Scilly Islands. This news
created considerable excitement in • the mercantile
world, and more particularly so from the fact of the
1
' Brigand having been built to trade between Bristol
and Liverpool, calling at Wexford, in which trade
she had been employed for the last two years, having
I left the station only a fortnight since for the purpose
of proceeding from London to St. Petersburgh, for
which port she was intended to sail from the t. Ka-
tharine's Dock on Thursday next.
The Brigand was one of the largest and most beau-
tiful iron steamers ever yet built, being. of 600 tons
burden, and 200-horse power, and was remarka,sle
for the beauty of her workmanship, the splendid it-
ting,a of her saloon, and her Pxtraordinary speed. S,e
cost in building 32,000/. The rumour to %%inch wig
have alluded above was unfisrtunirtely too soon coo-
firmed by the arrival of the Cornish steamer Herald,
Sampson Hawes, commander, from Hayle, bringing
the crew of the unfortunate steamer, 27 in number, and
confirming the statement of her total wreck on the
Bishop Rock, a portion of the Scilly Isles.
Upon receiving this confirmation. we immediately
took steps to ascertain the particulars of this unfortu-
nate accident, and the following statements, derived
from the chief mate and one of the engineers of the
Brigand, may be relied on as correct.
It appears that the Brigand haying taken in upwards
of 200 tons of coals, and' a large quantity of patent
fuel for her consumption on the voyage to St. Peters-
burg, sailed from Liverpool for London at two o'clock
on Monday afternoon, and proceeded safely
.on her
voyage until five o'clock on IVednesday mornings
wfien they saw the St. Agnea' light, which, from ti
refraction of light, the weather being very hazy, the,
conceived to be at a considerable distance—they avere
then steaming at 12 knots an hour : suddenly I,Fee man
on the look-out at the bow sang out, " Irreakera
ahead 1" which they distinctly saw, but flip late, au_
fortunately, for the rate at which they were going
) was such, that they could not stop her ; rind; although
they put the helm hard.aport, to endeavour to Piliftrti
the rock; the vessel immediately afterniards struck
most violently, and two plates of the bluff' of
her bow were driven in. She reboundok
from the rock, but in an instant afterwarde,
she struck again, broadside on, the force of whidi
blow may be in some measure conceived from the fr et,
that it actually drove a great portion of her paddle-
wheel through her side into the engine-roan,, The
vessel was built in tour compartments, the plan
adopted in 'iron ships, or she would have gums down
instantly, two of her compartments being now burst,
and the water rushing into thein at a :roost leartU
rate. By the two shocks four and a hell plates were
destroyed, and four angle• irons were gone .in the
engine-room. The two COlllpartinents aft being, horn._
ever, still water-light, she continued to float, and
every exertion was used by her cemniander, Captairs
Hunt, for upward of two hours to save her, when the
crew took to the boats, and shortly after she went
down, about seven miles from the rock, in about 45
fathom: of water. The
.mate attributes the loss to the
strong current setting them upon the rock, and to the
haze strong
deceived them as to the distance of the
St. Agnes' light. The men connected with the en-
gineeringdepartment, whom we saw, give the following
interesting narrative of the occurrence. They gay,
that having left Liverpool on the Monday afternoon,
every thing proceeded well until a few minutes before
3 o'clock on Wednesday morning, the vessel then
going at full speed, her engines making upwards of
20 revolutions in the minute, being then, as they
have since learned, close off St. Agnes. They were
at work below in the engine-room, when suddenly they
felt a tremendous shock, accompanied with a report
like the roar of cannon, and almost instantaneously
a second shock, and the water rushed in in a fearful
mariner. They immediately ran on deck, and found
that the vessel had struck the rock as before described.
One of them was then ordered by the Captain to as-
sist the carpenter in endeavouring to stop the leak,
,for which purpose he went down in the engine-roone,
where they were still trying to work the engines,
but the paddle-wheel being driven in, had torn the
injection-pipes, so that they would not work, but at.
slow-motion ; the engines being kept working, the-
Captain, as this man imagines, not thinking the leak
so bad, and that they could get the better of it, ase
that, as the weather was so moderate, they rnapoat
reach some port. On examining the leak in the" en_
gine-room, they found a rent of at least 'five feet in
length, the rivets being started, and the
ar fearfiplatea'oronen
)d
rusher through which the water shed in a '.rtt
manner. They immediately procured. it. plank, mid
having fixed it against the leak, by r4tans of stays, to
the cylinder, they got a quantity of waste low and
grease, which they stuffed in anltudeavoured to keep
out the water, and partially succeeded in doing so ;
but the other leak in the fore'aold being out of reach,
rendered all their efforts ineffectual, and the water
• continuing to pour in, soon put the fires oaf after
which, there being then more then thur feet of voter
in the engine-room, they were eurepelhal to quit
it. In the meantime, another portium of the.
crew had been ordered by the Captelin to go intea
the hold, and throw the coals and patron,. fuel overboard,
iii order 'to lighten her, and blue lights Were bums`
awl other alpals of distress made. The men went,
,to ‘‘:ork,4l.l4.sdily in the hold, getting out the eealn,
14e.,uetil.
tine water having gained very much open
there, they rushed on deck. The Captain. having,
however, addressed and encouraged them, they ' re-
turned to the hold and continued their exertions for
about a quarter of air hour longer, when the water
haying rised over the hatches of the lower deck they
were compelled to quit the hold. The Captain then
called them all aft on the quarter-deck, and, finding
that no further exertion could be made to save the
ship, and that she was then fast sinking forward, the,
sea at that time breaking over her bow, ordered there
to make preirarationa for saving themselves, and fete
two boats belonging to the Brigand (both jollybo'ats)
were got out, and the crew, twenty-seven in nine+ er,
placed in them. The Captain and mate remair,eli on'
the quarter-deck of the unfbrtunate vessel to it'd the
last. The boats, which were completely
(Zowded,
then shoved Off, without having any proi;i'sions on
board, except a small quantity of bread`, aear't in a few
minutes the Brigand disappeared, shikii4e head fore-
most, about seven miles front where sten struck, and
in deep water. The weather, fort Irately,' Was at
this Moment particularly nuxlerrht, or -the
_olts in their crowded state could not are
se lived in theb sea., - •
and nut a soul mutt probaldy would have been
left to tell the tale. Having rowed to the rock, uporn
which they landed, to survey the coast, they spur eel
their course ibr St. Agnes Bay, where, to t'aeir
inexpresrihle joy, they saw two boats, well swanned,
coming to their relief, by whom (the wen in the
Brigand's boats being much exhausted from their exer-
tions on board) they were taken in tnien Some of
the hands were placed on board the other boats to
lighten their own, and render them less crowded, and
at about two or three o'clock in the afternoon they
were fortunately landed at St. Mary's, Scilly, without
the loss of a single life. Front St. Agnes they pro-
ceeded in a pilot-boat to Denzance, and the ship-
wrecked crew were kindly conveyed, passage free, to
Bristol in the Herald, 'The rocks upon which the
Brigand was lost have proved peculiarly fatal ; no
longer ago than,- 1841 the Thames steamer
ia_ o,
been was
wrecked within three miles of the same :I annolde
or 80 lives lost. Various suggestions have
t` of this wreck,
by nautical./ men here as to diet
sonic say:eig that the steamer oi
chatu.snot to have got e
d that, the within many miles of the Scilly Islands; an at, the
weather being naelerate, she was not driven there ,
while on the other hand it is urged, that, from
the
haziness of the weather she was nut
.awitre that she
distance of the St. Agnes'
was so near until too late, the refraction of light de-
eeiving them as to the
light ; and the
/current, which is very strong there
having set them down only
and runs for Mlle hours in one direction, and
three hours in the other,
this . _on the,
advent •ge a
rock. Unfortunate, however, as
been,it has decidedly proved the decalent leas,
would undoubtett'lr-"
vessels built in compartments, for had a--rov
only one compartment she the leak 'eel-. e
been saved, ant even ulthou h, b
t, an striking
fact of her reboundine. d 8 y the extraordi aye
two compartments were burst, yet it • .
a *ewe, t'ilna,re,'Y
floated for more than two hours and h7etlfn. (habt
t.she
se ves, while, if sb
the crew to save them 1 .., ena .Ing built of wood, she must with such In •
down in less than Jur.
ten minutes ' : have h
d gb:entel
have perished. , and all, 'hGnis would

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CVSTOX.P
-tiUSE 110131511RIES.—The officers charged
ePtr',.icipation in these frauds still continue sus-
, ui the Board not ha i v-bir yet come to any deci-
sion on their cases. The public, however, may rest,
satisfied that this delay does not arise from any want:
jof determination on the part of the Board to bring to
ustice and punishment such of them as shall be,
proved guilty. Indeed the strict measure which hes
been dealt out to officers not charged with frauds, but
with inadvertence or deviations from their instruc-
tions, can leave little hope of escape to those guilty of
actual fraud. As an instance, we may cite the case
of Mr. Rolls, au officer of the highest character in the
department, and against whom no suggestion or alle-
gation of fraud has been inade—this officer was ono
Friday dismissed the service for not having commur:i-
cated to the Board an overture made to him in 1 F.ote
by a large silk importer in the City. A general
pression, however, prevailed in the departnient that Mr.
Bells had not concealed the fact from a superkr • ofti.
The only other fact that , ;rano-
ecr at the time.
pired dxiii,ll-lisngsustlpic(:n‘dvedeekmils
it;,lriridta3.ll.lll:ls. lspilankao.4/128,/aildvinrg.
waiter,lr Buckstone arrived by the Acadia o tier a taciot
successful sojourn in the United States, mid will im-
mediately appear at the Haynunlict the
last new
in his fa-
vourite comedy of Married Life, an d his
farce in this country of A hiss in. Ike.; Dark.