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London, England, 1828-05-24 00:00:00

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LOSS ow CLYQESDALA SILOS- BOAT in PM

Thursday night, bet weci, ratite -I and twelve k.
the
.Clydesdale Steam Packet, on her p.o.sve from
,Greenock to Belfast, as briefly utetuionedin the STAR of
.Wedoe%clay, took tire, and WAS .4.lfflost totally dritrnyed,
The. following letter on this subject is lions a Gentle.
man, one of the passengers, dated &rainier, Mg M.
to a friend in Glasgow t
" Two young Ladies of your city and myself, the only cabin pas,
sengers, sat down to tea at seven. Miss S. thought she heard a
cracking sort of noise, which I did not, and no further notice was
taken of it; they went to bed about nine, I think. I read till ten,
and then.lay down and slept till eleven, when I awoke, and in a
few minutes after I heard quick footsteps on deck, and on going
there. found thvoressel was on fire. lily two companions; muds
alarmed, came also on ack, with merely cloaks over them ; after
some little time, I'got them to the quarter deck, the fire still gain-
ing on us, and we about twelve miles from the Corsewall•
house, which fortunately was in sight ; for this we steered,cuttint
away parts of the deck, cabin, and bulkhead, and pumping. Tittle
was now the most dreadful—frightful confusion among the pas-
sengers nn deck, in number about seventy or eighty.
tt My companions behaved with great coolness, and did as I hula'
them. Unluckily they had undressed before going to their birth.,
and did not bring their clothes on deck along with them, and their
luggage was also below. In this state, dentin; the bell. pumping,
and using the few buckets that were on board, the fire still gaining
on us aft, we three, were obliged to force our way through ese
games ; at length, at one o clod this morning, every soul on io,,,rg
was lauded ,in the rucks at the Light house. The keeper, Mr.
Kennedy, his assistatitt and their. wivee and families, did every thel
that kindness and good feeling could suggest to relieve the cistre.,e4
.—five or six fires were lighted. the 'auks put to bed and riresstg,
breakfast provided, arc. Nlr. Kennedy brought them arid me kve
ten miles, and they are as well as, under the circumstance., tkey
tan be. We go on for Port-Patrick to-night, and thence tor 1;d.
fast to-morrow.
.4 I consider it but justice to state else result of my observatm%s
on the conduct of such of the crew tell bet reath my notice; 41
which my companions, ft telidti, indeed, I may call ,them, cuatirnt
lutist fully. The ateerstnatt, durai.g these awful two hoer., was
James Maxwell, pilot ; more cool. determined Istavery, I C.:nlit
impossible for titan to show. Though the heavp.lllllo.r, .14. g
lest flainea, were surrounding him, he held ferns to his post at the
wheel, assisted by John Robinson, mate. who was equip, to„1,
and used every exertion to keep the paasengers in order. Capt,t,
Turner worked like a hone ..t every thing ; the steward ids. at
the pumps and buckets, 'and doing all in his power. In the time
situations in which these men acted, it were impussikle to cnri-
ceive more presence of mind, steady coolness, jut bravery,
all displayed. Robinson at one time would he at the pump,,tiltn,
when the smoke or flame intercepted the view of the lighthouse,
be would direct the hardy steersman to the starboard or urbilar.l,
and then to the pumps, &c. again. Its short, under the gradates
providence of the Asulamrr, we owe our preserve:on to the
conduct of these men—Maxwell in particular: had he flinches:or
had the engine stopped, we were gone beyond human aid. As it
was, a few minutes longer would have doubtless sent us alt into
eternity."

A carved inkstand, mad• :rum SHAKSPE %RE'S m9l-
-y-tree, was presented Is-t week by Mrs. BAZINAII Ilona to the
Bristol Institution.—Dorset Chronicle.

Thursday a fatal accident happened at the recendv
erected steam loom mill, belonging to Niessrs. Ornirc.if
and Hardcastle, Bolton. A young woman, of prepos-
sessing appearance, named Mary Ann Willi., about /8
years of age, was suddenly snatched from a dotting
father, under the following agonizing circortn.tance.,:
Having finished her warp, she proceeding to the over.
looker, who was repairing a loom at a shirt distance,
to inform him of that event. The unfortunate girl
happened to go, for- the convenience of -speaking to the
overlooker, between two looms, where an tiptightshaft.
distant four inches (tom one of the beams: aired Innsc
improperly left open and ureased, !AS turning at the
rate of about seventy-five revolutiolfi 1n a minute; and
while leaning over to speak to the man, her petticoats
became entangled by the shaft...upse.whicir she was
instantly. whirled round with an ;:el.tcity., her
body at every turn being literally malted thiough the
small space before alluded
.to, and .-hir fie
struck against. thecast.leun frame of ,the. LOOM 3C teal
persons an the rpocp„ .aeeing her . tfrearlfirtly. appalbag
situation, rushed doirc stairs to the eagne-huuse, and
abcut two minetts.aftei :the wail 'caught, throne& iiss
stopped; but unhappily too late to be of .ant service.
The lower part of her dress was torn to piecest. and.,
upon examination, it was found that her stays only re-
mained attached .to the 'shalt. On being taken away,
'she was a hideous mutilated mass, with little of hum&
nity distinguishable; and a single convulsive eob abet-
wards marked the last eilort of expiring nature.