Star.
London, England, 1831-08-23 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23.

10„• An eloquent Paper en Lard Wynford's Bill, ac, w.
morrow.
The Seas may be missed at the Office, or, as usual,
through the Newsmen.
Oxs coTtociermemeter, 74, R.
remoter, 30.14. Wind N.N.W. Weather, threadcloudy.
We have some pleasure in announcing, by Ex-
press, from Dublin, which arrived this morning,
that on Saturday's Poll, Mr. LATOUCHE approached
Lord IMGLITRIR within fifieen, and Mr. Sass
twenty-one. The numbers were, SHAW, 319;
Lord ING ZSTAIIE, 313; LATOOCHZ, 298; and
O'Lovems.tx, 276. The Anti-Reformers had
gained, therefore, about 100 on the gross poll, but
little doubt is entertained, that yesterday—Mon-
day—the Reformers would considerably recover.
The proceedings on Friday made a shew ageism
the reform candidates; but this was ascribed
partly to jockeysbip, and partly to conduct which
will to-night become a subject of inquiry, by pe_
tition to the House of Commons. Reformer.,
however, are of the pugnacious species, and will
not be easily baffled in their purpose. Their
conduct is bottomed on principles which am as
strung in the eleventh hour as in the first; and
as influential under adverse circumstances, a*
under the most encouraging. Our opinion,
at least, will be greatly diminished of the
Irish nation, if the Dublin electors fail to re.
turn two men so worthy of their preference, as
Messrs. LATOUCHZ and O'Lotrommx. Doubt-
less, however, the Dublin Corporation is a well.
trained bend, like all corporations; and if the
Ministers bad done their duty, this and all such
narrow-souled and corrupt bodies would ere this hare
been remodelled, and deprived of their power of mis-
chief. We give them six months reign after the
meeting of a reform Parliament—it is therefore
proper that they should display their power, as far
as they can, fur this last times. Thank Goo,
however, no public hope rests on such bodies as the
Corporation of Dublin.

A letter received by us this morning, written la-
the poll on Saturday, explains the feelings on the
spot:

" DVIPLIII. 5A1171111,4T.

" A petition has been this day fotswardad to the House of
Commons, complaining of the gross porthdlty el the Shelf
of Dublin.
" In fact, the Recorder and his colleague are soigne*
this Election upon the most avowed peinclples of religious
bigotry.

•' Is this consistent with the impartiality and freedom
frotn'party bias, which should distiognieh a Judge I
" Several of the piteous bolding ollicisl situations under
the dovensineat have ems voted avian the Reheat eaa•
&dates."

The only original feature of our Paris news to-
day, is the report of a caustic correspondence be-
tween PZDRO and MICIViL, in which the latter
assumes the airs' of a King de facto towards s
fugitive King de jure. The Constitationners re-
report of this royal and fraternal correspondence is
curious and amusing, but of secondary interest to
English readers.

There have been carious rumours for the last
week, in regard to the Emperor of RUSSIA.—
Some speak of a Physician passing from Berlin.
for Petersburgh, celebrated for his skill in cases of
insanity— some have spoken of violent attempts os
his life—and others describe him as dead of cho-
lera. The last accounts spate of him and his Court
as being closely shut up in his-Palace of Peseta,
with duple and trip!. sanitary cordons, and, it
seems, that his Brother, bitcnars, lately left
Poland, in haste, for Petero . From all these
circumstances, it is inferred, that something has
occurred which it is not yet convenient to divulge,
and which, in so despotic a country, may be con-
cealed till it is the pleasure of the authorities to
make it known.

The Dutch mails of this day bring no news from
Warsaw later than the Bth, which we inserted yes-
terday ; but they present alarming accounts of the
silent march of that invisible, insidious enemy, the
Cholera Morbus. It spreads in Hungary and Gal-
Bela, threatening Austria and Bohemia; while more
northwards, the every-way mischievous Russians
are scattering it in Posnania, and on the borders of
Silesia. That any Government should be wicked
enough to aim at establishing its gloomy des-
potism by means of soldiery, whose Pes-
tilential diseases are far more terrible than
their prowess, is a disgrace which never can be
wiped from the Russian name. We bear much
said of Attila, but be never was charged with aim-
ing at conquest, by sending armies infected with
contagious and fatal pestilence. Yet Birmingham
is boasting of its contracts to supply such monsters
with arms ; and though we honour, on many sub-
ject., the good spirit of that noble town, yet on
this subject it basards all its reputation ; sad,
really, some means ought to be adopted, to in-
demnify the parties for their paltry profits, in order
that the Russians, the Cholera, and Birmingham.
may not become a trio of horrors through the civi-
Blvd world. The profits of 40,000 stand of arms
is probably about £5,000;
it appears to us
that this sum might be raised by subscription,
and given among the parties, as a maw of re-
moving so great a public stain.

This day we give Ow; to those very it:immu-
nity R VLIS Of COURT to which we some 62"
since called public attention ; for whatever b •
the, names of these documents. they deeply agr•ii
the perusal liberty sad ancient usages of the 8n

till' nation. We are the more surprised at them,
because there now exists a special proCssion of
liberality and amelioration in all affairs of Go-
vernment. The facility, if not the possibi-
litv of obtaining bail in civil actions, seems
by them to be closed ; and, therefore, to pay
whatever is demanded, or sworn to, or to go to
gaol, appears, in our judgment, to be the only
practical alternative. It behoves all men to read
these rules, —and, above all, our vigilant guar-
dians, the Members of both Houses. For our
part we consider them in various senses as the
most questionable productions of our times.
While, however, we formally arraign these
rules at the bar of the public, and of both Houses
of Parliament, we give their Lordships credit for
their new sehedule of declarations, by which those
instruments of imposition are shortened to a third
or fourth of their late absurd length. This is
amelioration, and what improved intelligence has
long demanded ; and if they had equally simplified
and eased bail, instead of imposing conditions which
are not warranted by claims of incurred debt,
and which in real life are impracticable, we
should have had far mere pleasure in complimenting
them, than in presuming to express our ungracious
reprobation.
Good, however, comes out of evil; and there can
be no doubt that the abhorrence which all jurists
and publicists have for years expressed, in regard
to the iniquity of demanding any bail in mean
process, will be so far increased and exasperated
by these rules, that we may reasonably expect,
ithin three years, to see such a modification of
the whole law, as will render these rules a memo-
rable monument of the laws of lawyers !

No bail whatever ought to be exacted, unless on affidavit
It is slims by eircumetanees that the party is preparing o
proposing to abscond.
13ail should not be taken for more than a fixed mous,
of costs.
Bail unified to be creditable by a Justice of the Peace.
Clergyman, Churebwardeas,Oveneers,orTazgstberers,or any
two of them near the residence of the bail, should not be re-
quired to justify.
Each bail should merely declare himself worth the al-
leged debt, and 151. or BM meta.

Regulations like theirs, are what, in 1831, the
public expected from the Legislature and the
Judges—when lo ! to the great surprise of all men,
forth come these Rules of Court !

Private letters from Vienna state, that •ery great
distress prevails in that capital on account of the
Cholera Morbus approaching. The town has been
divided into several districts by the Police. It is
calculated that no less than 16,000 weavers are
out of employment. Th. Government have set a
great number of them to work at the fortifications,
particularly at Lintz, which is about to be formed
into an immense encampment. There is also a
great scarcity of money. Austria is also said to be
making preparations to form a camp of several
thousand men in the environs of Podgorse, as well
as to construct a bridge over the Vistula, near
Cracow.

A Mexican mail has arrived this morning, sailed
the sth July from Vera Crus : the papers are void
of interest, and it appears that the Republic wu
enjoying tranquility.

Imports
Paid ...

CIESTOIRI AT ♦ERA CIIIIJI.-.11711fZ..
.. 491,344 dollars.
... .. 308,406 ditto.

In Coln
In Bars

ROTESAY STEAMER.

the means by which he reached Beaumaris,
whither be, and each of his fellow-sufferers as
survived the dreadful catastrophe, were con-
veyed as soon as possible. He soon came to him
self, and though much enfeebled by the injuries be
sustained, and the exereons he made, we are
happy to say that he is now in a fair way of re-
covery. Another gentleman lashed himself and
his wife to a plank, and both reached the shore.
Unhappily, however, the gentleman died almost
immediately. The lady, we understand, is doing
well.

The Liverpool Papers, received yesterday, are
full of details of the dreadful loss of lives sustained
by this distressing event, but vary in their accounts
of the calamity.
The Liverpool Journal says there were 200 per-
sons on board, including the crew.
Among these was a Mr. Nuttall, of Bury, who
had made up a party of 26 persons from that town
on a trip of pleasure to Bangor and Beaumaris, of
which party of 26 he and a Miss Whittaker were
the only persons saved. The following is his ac-
count of the event :

" When the vessel arrived off the Floating-light
the sea appeared rough, and Mr:Taney, of Bury,
being in common with others, greatly alarmed.
went dawn to the cabin, where the Captain war at
dinner, and requested him to put back. His reply
was, I think there is a d—d deal of fear on
board, and very little danger. If we were to turn
back with passengers: it would. never do—we
should have no profit. All expressed a great anxi-
ty to turn back, but the captain still refused. He
was repeatedly asked to make signals of distress,
but he declined. Soon after nightfall the vessel began
to fill with water and the pumps were put to work ,hut
still it gained on them, and the Captain was re-
quested once more to make signals of distress.
He would not make signals, neither would he hang
out a light, and the result of his obstinacy was,
that the vessel quitted her course, and struck at
twelve o'clock at night. The scene then was
awful in the extreme; 50 persons were at once
thrown into the sea, amidst the screams of the
survivors, by the lurching of the vessel. When
the vessel struck, the passengers rushed forward,
but the Captain ordered them aft, and on see-
ing him consult with the Mate, a gentleman
cried out, " It is all over with us ; the Captain
and mate are preparing to leave the vessel."
At that instant the Captain fell, or stumbled
overboard, and was the first person drowned. Mr.
Nuttall says he was intoxicated all the way.—
The vessel continued whole until one o'clock, wheal
she broke, as it were, across, and the remainder of
the passengers, pith the exception of those saved,
were hurried into the sea. The women and chil-
dren collected in a knot together, and kept embrac-
ing each other, keeping up all the time the most
dismal lamentations. When tired with crying,
they lay against each other, with their heads re-
clined, like inanimate bodies ; but when the
vessel went to pieces, at half-past one o'clock,
the shrieks of anguish and despair were terrific
and deafening. At this awful moment Mr. Nuttall
was precipitated into the sea ; he was encum-
bered with all his clothes, a great coat, and, in
addition to these, a fine little boy took refuge on
his back. He could nut swim, end must have
sunk, had not Providence thrown a rope in his
way. He seised-it eagerly, and was guided by it
to a part of the wreck that adhered to the wheel
of the engine. Here he found Miss Whittaker, a
boy, and six others. They remained here in the
presence of death until seven. In the hope of at-
tracting notice, they hung out Miss Whittaker's
shawl; and this signal having been seen from
land, the life-boat came off, and carried them from
the wreck. Pre% ious to her arrival the tide had
carried them out to sea, and they must soon have
perished, had not assistance arrived."
The following particulars we take from the letter
of an intelligent private correspondent, dated Caer-
narvon. Aug. 20 :
The melancholy intelligence reached Caernarvon
soon after daybreak on Thursday morning, and the
whole town was thrown int) the greatest conster-
nation. A partial stop was put to business, from
the fears of many that some relative might have
been on board the vessel on their way from Liver-
pool to Bangor. Every vehicle was immediately
put in requisition from this place to Bangor. 1
made one of a small party, and on arriving at Ban-
gor we immediately crossed over to Beaumaris,
where the scene I witnessed beggars description.
The vessel, it appears, reached Puthn's Bay at
o'clock in the morning, and it was at this place
that the passengers first discovered the horrors of
their situation. The night was unusually boisterous
and dark ; the sea ran high, and the wind blew
hard from the east. It was soon discovered that
she was filling fast with water—the fires were
consequently extinguished. In this dreadful situa-
tion the Rothsay Castle continued for more than
four hours, and just as the break of day afforded
the passengers a glimmering of light, to see the Sc.
tual horrors of the scene, the voice of a Liverpool
pilot was heard —" It is all over ! wear e lost ! we are
lost rand it was found that the vessetstruck with 'a
tremendous crash upon a han's of sand known by
the name of the Dutchman's Bank. This final in-
timation of their fate was received by the passen-
gers with one loud hysterical shriek, the last heard
by the survivors, for all was soon quiet, the vessel
going to pieces instantly. The first intimation of
these horrors on shore was received through the
medium of a man on the Anglesey coast, who,
standing on the beach, perceived what he thought
to be the mast of a sunken vessel just above the
surface of the water. By the aid of a telescope he
soon however discovered that it was the chimney
of a steam packet. He spread the news quick as
lightning; got a boat, and lowed to the spot.—
This man bad the gratifying task of picking up
three individuals who were clinging to the wreck,
and bringing them safe to the shore. His example
was immediately followed at Beaumaris, and about
twenty boats put out to sea in the hope of saving
some of the unfortunate passengers.
Up to yesterday it was found that 22 persons
only had been saved, the whole of whom undoubt-
edly owe their preservation to the poor fellow who
was up so soon, and discovered their situation from
the beach. The people of Beaumaris thronged to
the sea shore for miles, in the gloomy hope of re-
ceiving the mortal remains of those unfortunates
whom the sea might throw up to them. Their task,
though painful, was so far satisfactory, that upwards
of 30 dead bodies, up to the (present moment, have
been recovered. A Mr. and Mrs. Payne, of Man-
chester, were picked up, lashed to a plank, floating