The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-21 00:00:00

DISASTROUS SHIPWRECK OF THE DONCASTER

The Glade Harold, Captain Willis, arrived at a late hour
this evenino. (Saturday) from Bombay, whence she sailed on
the Bth of June, and the Cape on the Bth of August. This ship
brings intelligence of the wreck of the barque Doncaster, Cap-
tain Pritchard (which sailed from the Mauritius for London the
28th' of June), on, the reef of Agulhas, about seventy miles
south-east of the Cape of Good Hope, supposed on. the night of
Sunday the 17th of July, when every soul on board perished.
By a letter from Samuel Parlby, Esq.. to the lion. Col. Bell,
dated Kleine River Valley, July 30, 1836, it appears that • the
bodies of nineteen women and children, and thirty-two men
and boys; were washed on shore, arid had been buried. The
scene• of the calamity is about half a mile to the east of the
point of the coast on which the Jessie; Captain Winter, was
lost in 1829. Not a vestige of the hull of the Doncaster remains.
The following names were observed on the covers of books and
pieces of boxes which have been picked up :—Honourable Lady
Colville, Russell farm, Hertfordshire, favoured by Mrs. U—
(name obliterated,) on the lid of a box; Mary Jane Saunders,
on a music book; Miss M. J. E. Saunders, ditto;- George
Woolly, jun., ditto; Captain Walker, 99th regt., in a book;
W. Macready, Esq., Elston, Hertfordshire, favoured by (name
obliterated,) lid of a box; R. Saunders, Esq., South End, in a
book; Robt. Saunders, Esq., Elthain, Kent, present from the
Mauritius, lid of a box; A. Edwards, 1832, ditto; W. Wil-
liams, surgeon, on a bottle; P. Dollar in a book; Quarter-
master-Serjeant O'Learnev, 99 regt., on the lid of a chest; W.
Hughes, 29th regimentditto; A. Hooks, Royal Irish Fusileers,
No. 155; L. M. Fearney, serjeant, 29th; soldiers' caps and
buttons of the 87th, 29th, 99th, and royal sappers and miners,
&c. In another letter, dated August 1, irons the civil commis-
sioner of Swellendam to his excellency the governor, the com-
missioner states that the bodies washed on shore were nearly all
naked. " Limbs and parts of bodies, which appear to have
been fourteen or twenty days in the water; wearing apparel of
all descriptions, and clothing with the regimental buttons of
the 29th, 87tb,'and 99th regiments, and royal artillery and en-
gineers, all much torn, and bags which have contained sugar,
are continually coining on shore. The only clue to the names
of the passengers is a small memorandum book, or journal, a
little defaced, which, I have reason, from comparison of dates
and circumstances, to believe, belonged to Dr. Page, of the
royal artillery or engineers, and it is there stated that the pas-
sengers were Captain and Mrs. Weir, of the 29th regiment;
Lieutenant and Mrs. Walker, 99th regiment; Madame Wiche
and her daughter; Mrs. Saunders and family; Serjeant John
Reid, of the royal sappers and,miners; and seventeen
It is an affecting circumstance that Mr. Saunders, the husband
of the lady, who, with her children and servants (numbering in
all eleven persons,) were lost in this ship, has been residing
several weeks with W. Macarthy, Esq., of the,Branch Bank
of England in this town, anxiously looking forward to greet the
arrival of his family.—Hampshire Telegraph.

'WRECK OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

(From a Corespondent of the London Standard.)

- .
TORQUAY, Saturday, Oct. lsth.—As some of your readers
may feel interested respecting the wreck of the .Duke of Marl-
borough, permit me to inform you that that fine brig (at the
time of her wreck a merchant vessel, oHtward bound with a
general, cargo), was formerly a Post-Ake packet on the Fal-
mouth station, and viihen commanded by Capt. John Buil fought
a severe action with the Primrose br:g of war, each mistaking
the other for an American. She anchored a month since about
one mile and a half from the Torquay side of Torbay, and has
been detained so long'on account of her captain being ill on shore.
On the first of this mouth she rode out a heavy gale at single
anchor, but during the gale from SSW: on Thursday morning
last, she parted her chnin cable at 20 minutes after three o'clock.
The mate, Mr. John Gluvias, then let go the best bower-anchor,
and when she brought up she was only a quarter of a mile from
the shore. This chain-cable in half an hour parted also, and
she drove broadside on against a precipitous point, under which
there are six fathoms of water, and then swung round into a
bight, surrounded with cliffs as high as her toast-heads, and
nearly perpendicular. Directly the brig struck; the masts (the
,shrouds of which had previously been cut) fell, and the mate'
and one seaman having,rentained on board half an hour after
the vessel struck, clung to the cliff. A sea hove the vessel
against the cliff, and ,crushed the poor seaman, and the mate,
after falling into the brig again, got hold of the cliff a second
time, and crawled up, nearly naked, on his hands and knees,
and when he saw. the place-the next day, could hardly believe
he had scrambled up rt. This. fine man-of-war-looking brig of
200 tons, and mounting six 2.2:Pounder. carronades, struck at
four a.m., and at half-past eight, when I saw her, was lying a
shattered wreck,. having nothing but the bowsprit, head, and
the larboard bulwarks as far as the midships, above water—the
after part of the vessel being dissevered, and the deck floating
in and out of the wreck with the surging of the waves, while
three gallant fellows were upon it, attempting to recover part of
the spars, &e. Out of ten people on board the mate only was
saved, and the other nine sunk to their graves, beneath the wild
billows. Mr. Putt (the captain), as I before observed, was on
shore ill, and of the nine drowned, the bodies of Richard Henry,
and of John Lie (a Swede), have been recovered.

OtT.ls..—The King has been pleased to order
a conge d'elire to the. Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral church,
Ripon. empowering them to elect a Bishop of that See; and,his
Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean
and Chapter, the Rev. Charles Thomas Longley, Doctor in
Divinity, to he by them elected Bishop of the said See.
WH I TEB AI. f„ OCT. 17.—The King has been pleased to pre-
sent the Rev. William Bruere Otter .D A., to the vicarage of
Kinlet, in the county of Salop, and diocese of fjereford, void
liv the promotion or the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor
William Otter to the See of Chichester.

The King has been pleased to order a Commission to pass the
Great Seal appointing Charles Shaw, Lefevre. Esq., Lieutenant
Colonel Charles kow,in, and Edwin Chadwick his Ma-
jesty's Commissioners for inquiring as to the best means of
establishing an efficient constabulary force in the several coun-
ties of England and Wales.

DOWNING-STREET, OcT. 18.—The Kim,,K., has. been pleased to
of the i I ',
appoint Major General Sir "Lionel Smith, i
,C
.3., to. be Capt.
General and Governor-in-Chief ~,mi of Jamaica and the
territories depending thereon; Colonel- .
M`Gregtir, Bart_,. ,to be Governor and (,-..:5r Evan John Murray
the islands of Barbadoes, St.
vio,nt,,rnreniiiir,le,r-in-Cbief of
and
their dependencies; Major General sir Henry Frederick 'i'Tobago,
verie. K.C.8., to be Governor and Commander-in r
inch Bou-
island of Malta and its dependencies • and the Le-ut. Governor
of
the
(sivernor
of British Guiana, Major General Sir James Carinint al, i• e myth,
Bart to be Governor and Ccminander-in-Chief
~ of that colony
and its dependencies.
A lioness, belonging to M. Martin's menagerie at Brussels
has jusrtrdtight forth the unusual number of four whelps. A;
generally happens in such cases, she refused to nourish
more
than two. The other two have been put to a very fine hitch,
who has adopted them, and it is remarkable that the whelps she
has taken to have hitherto thrived much better than those which
are left with the mother.—Gatignani's Messenger.
Boi.Tosl WINTER FAlR.—This fair commenced on Thursday,
and the show of horned cattle was numerous, the calverS and
young stock being of a superior quality. - There were but few
fat beasts brought out. The business done in cvers, and
offered'
steers
was a fair average, and at improving prices. • alThe' pigs
for sale did great credit:to our friends from the sister isle, and
were eagerly bought up. Yesterday the horses of value were
confined to those adapted to agricultural purposes; although
amongst the young stock there were many promising roadsters.
Of rosinantes there was an abundance, but as a set off, the mules
and donkeys excelled those shows at any former fairs.—Botton
Chronicle.
. - • -- --

!, IMPORTANT To JOINT-STOCK BANKS.—A curious circumstance
has been mentioned to us in connexion with one of the most
prominent subjects of the day. In the course of last year, one
of t be.la rge Joint Stock Banks of a midland county commenced
proceedings against a debtor when his solicitor took the rather
novel step of pleading that the bank was, incapacitated front
suing, because one of its pal tuers was a clerk in holy orders ;
upon which legal enforcement was abandimed. The exception
was taken at hazard • for the tact that a clergyman held shares
in the bank, was at the time unknown to either solicitor for the
plaintiff or solicitor for the defendant ; but as the bank had
above'one thousand pat tners, nothing was snore probable.—Con-
stitutional.

WILFUL 111111 DER AT CARRINGTON, NEAR NOTTINGHAM.—
Wil:I3M Renshaw, the unfortunate victim, was a lace-maker,
residing at Carrington. He had been to the Goose-fair, with
four other men, and on their way home they proposed to have
some beefsteaks fur supper, which were procured, and the de:
ceased and a friend went out to obtain some onions. it being
nearly eleven o'clock they found the shops shut, and were knock-
ing up the people, when a fellow called Bust Terry, a frame-
work-knitter, at Daybroke, began to interfere with them, and
struck the deceased's companion, who returned the blow, but
was obliged to give in from Jerry's superior strength. The
ruffian then turned upon the deceased, and, as he at first con-
ceived, struck him. in the abdomen, but he instantly felt the
blond trickling down, and the bowels protruding in a shocking
manner; .the poor man was instantly removed to a bed, and
medical aid procured, but
.he died on Monday evening. The
murderer, after having inflicted the wound, ran away, but was
followed, and after a dreadtul struggle was secured, and appeared
to walk quietly with them; but when they arrived with him at
the lock-up he pulled out a knife and threatened to rip up the
first perion who came near him. The constable seized him, but
a fellow, a friend of the prisoner, who was present, knocked the
(unstable to the around, and Terry escaped through the hedge
into the field, and has not, since been .found. An inquest was
Geld on Tuesday; and a verdict of wilful murder against William
Terry was returned, and the magistrates have offered a reward
I of £2O for his appreheusion.—Nottingham Journal.