The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

3iessrs.-ABR-A-31 GARTSIDE and Co. say :

At the Public Sales buyers attended in great numbers,
and operated with more spirit than during the few pre-
ceding months. The tone of the market shows a decided
improvement, and this feeling is more apparent in clean
"low" kinds, suitable for blankets, &c., than in the
Merino descriptions. For Australian, Cape, and East
India Wool, there was an animated competition, the
former realising the extreme rates current at the last
London sales, and the latter an average advance of 10 to
16 per cent. on the November sales ; well-bred and good-
conditioned wools participating in the improvement more
largely than the short and inferior kinds. Only a small
portion of the Mediterranean, River Plate, &c., was sold,
and in some cases a reduction was submitted to.

Mr. EDMUND BUCKLEY says :
The attendance of fine Wool buyers was larger than
on any former occasion—enough to have cleared ten times
the quantity offered—showing most clearly, if proof were
needed, that our market is well situated to attract a
numerous class of buyers of colonial and other fine Wools,
as well as of the low Wool trade, who also made a large
muster on the present occasion. There was a very spirited
competition for Australian Wool, and prices improved id.
to id. per lb. upon the closing rates of the London
November sales. Buyers, although most eager to obtain
supplies, yet showed no disposition to pay a large advance.
We cannot give so favourable an account of our
SHARE MARKET as we did upon this day week.
Owing to the accounts from all quarters indicating
war without a hope that diplomacy may even delay
it, many speculative and some real sales have been
induced, which have tended to lower prices generally.
The local stocks, banks, insurance shares, which
are not likely to be injured, but which may perhaps
be benefited, by war, are steady at former prices.
The amount of business done during the week has
been very small. We annex this day's prices :
Caledonians, 251 lan-H.; Eastern Counties,
12 7-16 1; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 60 1 11 1
601 1; London Stock, 1001 ; Ditto Eighths, 1c d ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 20 1 ; Midland
Stock, 591 HUH; North British, 71 -1,-; Dover
Stock, 171 5-16 ; Dutch Rhenish, 3d.

LOSS OF THE AUSTRALIAN SHIP
TAYLEUR.
DREADFUL SACRIFICE OF LIFE.

YESTERDAY morning, the public of Liverpool were
shocked by receiving intelligence of the total loss of the
new iron ship Tayleur, owned by Messrs. Moore and Co.,
of this town. This splendidly-appointed ship took her
departure from the Mersey on Thursday last, about noon,
for Melbourne, laden with a valuable cargo and freighted
with 518 passengers, sixteen of whom were cabin, and the
rest second-class and steerage passengers ; besides a crew
of 50 hands and 15 stewards, making in all 583 souls.
She sailed about noon, as already stated, on Thursday
last, being towed down the river by the steam-tug Victory,
which did not leave her till about seven in the evening,
when about six miles E.S.E. of the Skerries. From that
time, throughout the night, and during the whole of
Friday, the ship made good, but not over progress, with a
wind from S.W. and W.S.W. But on Saturday, about
noon, she struck, and almost immediately became a wreck,
on the " Nose" of Lambay Island, in the Bay of Dublin,
where the greater portion of her crew and passengers were
suddenly engulphed in the waves.
The first intelligence of the frightful disaster was
brought by Mr. Thomas Kemp, one of the surviving
passengers, an emigrant, we believe, from Lin-
colnshire, who arrived in Liverpool yesterday morning,
having first proceeded to Dublin, where he communicated
the sad story to the agent for Lloyd's. His account is as
follows :

The Tayleur left Liverpool on Thursday, at noon, in
tow of the steamer Victory, with a fine breeze from S.E.
She had on board, as near as I could learn, 670 persons,
including the crew. All went on well until about noon
on Saturday. At that time one of my fellow passengers
came running into my cabin, and said that there was land
on the lee bow. I asked him how far distant, and he re-
plied that he believed from three to four miles. I imme-
diately went on deck, and saw the land distinctly, which
appeared to me to be only about three-quarters of a mile
distant. From the progress the ship was making towards
the land I saw there was no hope of escape, and I prepared
myself for the worst. The wind was blowing fresh from
S.W., the ship being under reefed topsails.

As soon as it was known to the passengers that the
land was so close they all crowded on deck, and caused
such confusion that the crew were prevented from obeying
any orders that might have been conveyed to them by the
officers.

Both anchors were let go, but either the cables broke
or the heavy sea caused them to drag, for they did not
stay the progress of the ship, and she soon struck on a
rock, which I afterwards learnt was called " The Nose"
of Lambay Island. After striking she turned broadside
on to the rock, and many of the passengers jumped on
shore. She remained in this position only a few minutes,
when she slid off, filled rapidly, and went down stern
foremost, with the top of her masts visible above water.
The survivors were mustered and counted, and it was
found that there were about 250 saved. The number that
perished will therefore be 420.
The captain and first and third mates were saved.
The second mate and surgeon, and his lady and child,
perished.
Only three females and two children were saved.
The captain was the last man who left the vessel that
was saved.
The annexed we have received as
AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT.

The Tayleur cleared the Government offices on Wednes-
day last, with 480 adults on board, which, taking into ac-
count children, would bring up her complement to about
518 persons. She had a crew of 50, and 15 stewards on
her manifest, making the total number of souls on board
about 583. She was in admirable trim, drawing about
17t feet forward, and 19 aft.—a light draught considering
her large tonnage, being capable, according to her
builder's estimate, of carrying 4,200 tons upon a draught
of 21 feet. Her internal arrangements were perfect.
She had less than her full complement of passengers ; and
these, with the exception of a few in her poop
cabin, were carried on her main deck, and had
very ample accommodation. Her upper deck was
entirely unencumbered, and afforded every facility for the
proper working of the ship. Her passengers were of the
most useful class of emigrants which has hitherto left
our shores for the colony; and, being composed chiefly of
healthy persons in the vigour of life, would have proved a
valuable acquisition to the colonial population, and seemed
capable of turning their hands to any sort of labour,
whether mining or agricultural. The crew, we have said,
were 60 in number, and were a fine body of men. Fifteen
stewards were required exclusively for the accommodation
of the passengers, and the arrangements for comfort of
every kind were very effective. In short, every care
seemed bestowed which could render it possible for an
emigrant ship to start on her voyage under the most aus-
picious circumstances. The commander, Capt. Noble, was
favourably known as having navigated the celebrated
clipper ship Australia, belonging to Messrs. C. Moore and
Co., in a voyage unprecedentedly successful, first, from
Liverpool to Melbourne, thence to Amoy, in China, from
Amoy to the West Indies, thence to New Orleans, and
home to Liverpool, in the short period of thirteen months
and four days. He was selected by Messrs. Moore and
Co. to command the Tayleur, for which duty he was pre-
sumed in every way competent from previous experience.
A young and active man, a thorough seaman, courteous
and intelligent, his misfortune, in losing so fine a ship,
will be a subject of deep regret to all who know him.
Strange to say, although the ship appears to have been
lost at mid-day on Saturday, within eight or ten miles of
Dublin, it remained unconfirmed, the evidence resting
solely upon the trustworthiness of one passenger
until yesterday at a quarter past four o'clock, when a tele-
graphic despatch from Holyhead, sent to the owners,
conveyed the authentic news that the captain, first and
third officers had arrived in Dublin ; and that it was
ascertained that 200 passengers had been saved.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

A despatch was received in Liverpool yesterday, dated.
Dublin, 22nd Jan. " The Tayleur iron ship, from Liver-
pool to Melbourne, was totally wrecked on Lambay Island,
yesterday morning. Upwards of 300 lives were lost.
About 230 passengers, amongst whom was the captain,
contrived to reach the island. The Prince steamer has
gone to aid the people on Lambay. She had not returned
at 7.30 this evening.
" The mastheads of the ship are above water."
Another statement gives the number drowned as 270.
In reference to this melancholy subject, the annexed
report was received this evening from Holyhead :
" The captain, and first, second, and third mates, have
arrived in Dublin from the Tayleur. The Prince, steamer
ad not returned to Kingstown from Labaym at nine o'clock
this morning."
Any further information which transpires we shall give
in a second edition.

The above includes the whole of the details we have
been enabled to collect concerning this very lamentable
occurrence, with the exception of the list of passengers,
which we subjoin :--

CABIN PASSENGERS.
William Hadley

Mrs. White

Richard White

Mrs. Hayes

Honora White

- Hayes

Mrs. Dawson
Miss Dawson

William 'Thompson
➢ir. Wilson

Miss Dawson

Mrs. Cunningham

Miss Penton

Miss Cunningham

James Dodd

Miss Cunningham

STEERAGE PASSENGERS.
Jane Cock Robert S. Knell
Patrick McKerry James Stedgarty
William Patton Hugh Fraser
Alexander Fraser Anne Miller
Samuel Stemlake Ellen Miller

Mary Stemlake William Anderson
Mary Stemlake Allen Anderson
Susan Stemlake Jane Mitchell

John Blair

David Wright

John Cock
Dennis Driscole

Thomas Wright
Isabella Henderson

Edward Horrelle Mary A. Denton

Joshua Smith— William Troon
William Jeffrey John Troon
3irs. Jeffrey Paomu Lint