The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

TOTAL LOSS OF THE BARQUE " FRANCIS
SPAIGHT", OF THIS PORT, AND 21 PERSONS.

the ship England's Queen arrived in the Mersey yes-
terday afternooon, from Bombay and the Cape of Good
Hope. which latter port she left on the 19th of January.
This is the latest arrival from that quarter, and to Capt.
Sheddings, the commander of the vessel, we are indebted
for the Cape of Good Hope and Natal Shippina and
Mercantile Gazette of the 9th January, conveying the
following melancholy intelligence of the loss of the
Francis Spaight :
During the night between Tuesday and Wednesday last, it
blew a violent gale from the northward, and at 6 a.m. on Wed-
nesday the squalls were very severe.
At 8. 30, the wind came more to the westward in a hard
squall accompanied with torrents of rain, when the barque
Francis Spaight, of 366 tons, from Manilla to London, was ob-
served driving towards the strand, and an attempt was unfor-
tunately made to set the mainsail, which brought the vessel's
broadside to the shore; and in this position, with the mainsail
aback, she continued to drive until she struck the ground near
the slave lodge, about a mile from the village of Papendorp,
when, in consequence of being broadside to the beach, she
rolled heavily, the sea occasionally breaking over her decks. A
whale boat and a serf boat were sent from Cape Town ; the
whale boat succeeded in getting alongside the barque, and a
line was thrown over the vessel by the rocket apparatus. The
moment the boat touched the side, the crew of the barque, who
Appeared to have lost all presence of mind, rushed into her,
when she was filled and capsized, and sad to relate, the captain
and fourteen men of the crew were drowned, together with four
men of the boat's crew, named Thomas Williams, William
Taylor, John Jackson, and Charles Norton.
A surf boat and another boat were also sent from the North
Wharf by Messrs. T. and J. Sinclair; both boats capsized, and
two men, named Dollie and Peter, were drowned.
The following are the names of the crew saved, viz.: James
Robertson, carpenter, and John Mc. Leod, seaman.
Captain Patterson and the following men were drowned,
viz.: Thomas Haydon, mate, Magnus Smith, second mate,
Henry Hiate, steward, David Evans, Edward Mc. Donald,
George Hutchings, John Smith, of Leith, John Smith, of Edin-
burgh, and William Widder, seamen; William Byrnes, cook,
John Mittin, Thomas Beddoe, William Hall, and Richard Par-
ker, apprentices.
It is exactly twenty-five years since a northerly gale occurred
in Table Bay during the summer months ; and on reference to
the Government Gazette of the year 1821, we find that on the
4th of January a northerly gale, therein designated a hurricane,
blew with great violence, when the Danish ship India Packet,
and the English ships Dorah and Emma, were stranded ; but
we believe no loss of life then occurred. Had the head-sails of
the Francis Spaight been set, instead of the main-sail, and the
vessel run on the beach, stem on, and forced up by keeping the
head sails upon her, it is very probable that the whole of the
crew would have been saved.

The vessel is broken in midships and is a total wreck; and
very little of the cargo will be saved uninjured.

The manifest and mail have not yet be-en found, but so far as
it has been ascertained the cargo consisted of sugar, hemp,
tobacco, cigars, rattans, and sundry other articles.

THE EASTERN DISPENSARY,

The seventh annual meeting of the subscribers of this
excellent, but inadequately supported, institution, took
place yesterday, at the Parish-office. Mr. Kilshaw was
cal!ed to the chair. An anxious desire was shown on the
part of its friends for that public aid which would enable
them to clear off the outstanding debt, and to extend the
benefits of the institution, which from its locality em-
braces large disi ricts of the town. in which the objects for
relief and assistarce are not immediately comprised within
the convenient limits of the other two admirable Dis
pensaries.

Mr. A. HENDERSON, the honorary secretary, read the
following interesting report :--

The committee, in p-resenting to the subscribers their seventh
annual report of their proceedings, beg to express their gratiti-

cation on being enabled to announcer that in consequence of
the response made by the public to their appeal on behalf of the
funds of the institution since November last, they have been
enabled efficiently to carry on the operations of the Dispensary
without increasing the debt ; and they have strong hopes, as
the subscribers' list has much improved, (though still inade-
quate to the wants of the charity,) that they shall be enabled
to proceed without adding to the present incumbrances of the
institution, which remains yet involved to the amount of .t-200.

In the last year the number of applicants for relief and as-
sistance amounted to nearly 7000, being a considerable increase
on the former year, and all of whom were furnished with pro-
fessional advice and medicine, at the small cost of .'3OO.
The committee feel convinced, taking these facts into con-
sideration, that the public will admit the great benefits which
the poor have derived from the institution, and be anxious to
perpetuate them by continuing their liberal aid, and to enhance
and extend the efficiency of the charity, by increasing the
amount of their subscriptions, and the number of the sub-
scribers.

The committee have, moreover, great pleasure in acknow-
ledging the receipt of .'3O from the Rev. W. Falloon, being the
amount collected at St. John's Church, after a sermon preached
by him in behalf the Dispensary, and .'lB 13s. 3d. from the
Rev. Dr. Tattershall, being one-half the amount collected at
St. Augustine's Church, after a sermon by him on behalf of this
and the other Dispensaries.
The committee beg to return their thanks to those gentle-
men, and to express a hope that, in the ensuing year, their ex-
ample may be followed by other ministers in the district.
Mr. Parker Mr. Henderson, and Mr. Bousfield, were
elected as a committee for the management of the charity
for the ensuing year.

The resolutions, which will be flund in our advertising
columns, were then passed unanimously.
The other business was chiefly conversational, and we
adduced from it an ardent desire on the part of those
present to do their utmost to place the undoubted claims
of the institution before the general public and their
friends, with a view to pay off the debt, and to perpetuate
the advantages which the afflicted had, to so great an ex-
tent, all along derived from the charity.

Thanks being voted to the chairman, the meeting sepa-
rated ; and we sincerely hope that the appeal embodied in
the report. asorell as the representations of the philan-
thropic committee and the subscribers at large, will pro-
duce the requisite funds for carrying on operations with
increased vigour and effect.