The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE GREAT LIVERPOOL.

Intelligence reached London on Saturday of the total
loss of the Great Liverpool steamer, at four in the morning,
off Cape Finisterre, by getting on shoals. The catas-
trophe appears to have been wholly the result of accident.
Only three lives were lost, although it is stated there were
about 150 souls on board. 79 of the passengers and 21 of
the crew have arrived at Southampton by the Pacha,
which also had a narrow escape of being wrecked, having
run on shore off Oporto. The following is the description
of the catastrophe given by the commander, A. M'Leod,
dated Vice-Consulate Office, District of Corcubion, Feb.
28, 1846.
"At 4 o'clock on the morning of the 24th inst., whilst
steering N.N.E., with a strong wind from the S.S. VV., and
a heavy sea running, and about seven to ten miles front
Cape Finisterre, the weather thick, dark, and hazy, the
ship going about ten knots an hour, we struck upon a shoal
or rock, and made so much water in the engine-room that
she soon became unmanageable from the fires being put
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lay with her head to the southward broadside on the beach,
at the distance of 300 yards, on which a heavy surf was
breaking. Tire boats were all got ready for lowering to
land the passengers and crew, and the larbord life-boat
was sent with a party of seamen and a line to haul a rope
on shore, w;i3h they with difficulty reached in safety, and
we soon after got a hawser on shore, and the end of it made
fast and hove taut from the ship. Mr. Hamilton, chief
officer, was sent iu the launch with a party of passengers
and crew, amongst whom were several ladies and children ;
all were safely landed except Mrs. Archer, a child be-
longing to Mrs. Morris, i years old, and a native female
Indian servant, who were lost in the surf on the beach by
the swamping of the launch, though every exertionwas made,
both by shore, on the beach, and in the launch to save
them. After this the launch, which was with great diffi-
culty hauled alongside by us on board, and haled out, made
several successful trips, and all on board were safely lan-
ded. By 11 a.m., going myself in the last trip, having
previously ascertained thatevery person was out of the ship,
the sea at that period was breaking heavily over her, and
she was fast breaking up on the starboard side, amidships.
'I he pinnace was stove in lowering, and the starboard quar-
ter boat by the sea striking her violently. On getting on
shore I found s- veral articles of different kinds had already
floated there, and a number of the people of the coast had
come down and were plundering all they could get away,
though all means were taken to prevent it. In fact we
have been most shamefully plundered and robbed in every
possible way."

Captain M'Leod complains greatly of the difficulty ex-
perteneed at Corcobion, from the want of proper arrange-
ments by the consul there, who could not speak English,
was a person of no influence, and could render no assist-
ance of any sort.
On Wednesday, the twenty-fifth day after the above
letter was written, he went on board, and succeeded in
landing a great number of the mails, a few packages of
cargo, and some passengers' baggage, all in a mos
damaged state. Next day, he toted a protest, and was
granted by the mayor the means of removing the mails,
&c. ; but the order to permit their removal was not au-
knowledged by the guards costa ; and it was only after
considerable deay and difficulty that they were permitted
to be placed in the vice-consul's house temporarily, cur-
ing which period the system of plunder to which they
were exposed is represented as almcst incredible. On
the same evening the ship went entirely to pieces. The
mails were ultimately, with a portion of the passengers,
got on board the Pacha ; the remainder will be shipped
from Corunna, on board the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Queen, which was expected to sail
about the 17th ult. By a later account the passengers to
come forward from Corunna are all well, and in a con-
dition of comfort. Her Majesty's consul had been fur-
nished with troops to put down the plundering which was
being carried on, and to arrest the plundeters.

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land, or to rent property of any description, will do well
to apply to Mr. Williams, estate agent, at whose office,
46, lianel,igh-street, a lengthened list may be consulted.
THE SALE OF MR. JACKSON'S LAND AT BIRKEN.,
II EA D.—This sale is advertised for Tuesday next, the 17th
instant. The Jots are numerous and varied, and so ad-
mirably laid out that they cannot fail to suit every class of
purchasers, whether for business premises, villa resi-
dences, cottage or dwelling-house property. Of the latter
there has long been a complaint of scarcity, and, in at-
'cordance with the value of land, the rents have beat con-
siderably higher than on the Liverpool side. Plans have
been prepared which will prevent the -possibility of the
buildings on one portion of land being detrimental
to an- other. It will be sold by Messrs. J. awl F. Ilodg-
son, of .Birkenhead.

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