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was attached a plank, on which five of the crew successive)
were saved. The sixth was to have been a hoy, whom they
called "Bill," but as he was about to step on the plank, his
heart failed, and he was drawing back, when a sea swept him
and a seaman overboard. They shrieked fearfully, and made
one desperate struggle to reach the plank, but it was vain—
the wave was retiring, and they were hurried away and
drowned. The bov, a few minutes before his tur❑ to take
the plank, asked the captain for eleven sovereigns which his
father had given him in America to bring to his mother, who
lives in Belfast, remarking that if he was to be lost, the
money should be lost with him. The captain handed them
to him, and boy and money went down together.
After this no attempt was made tp land by the plank. The
tide was falling, and at low water the vessel was " high and
dry" upon the strand. Among the survivors is a boy of the
name of Donovan, from Kinsale. The sailors were all taken
to the house of a man of the name of Conynghain, just at
band, by whom and his family all the attention that they
stood iu need of was humanely paid them. The Mary was a
new vessel, this being but her third voyage. Her cargo con-
sisted of ►imber and a few bags of flaxseed.

LOSS OF THE ST. PATRICK STEAMER ANN THREE OF
HER CREW.—To the losses above enumerated we have to add
that of the St. Patrick steamer, the property of the Water-
ford company, by whom she was purchased from Sir John
Tobin. She left .Liverpool on Tuesday morning about six
o'clock; and bad nearly reached her destination (Waterford)
when, about eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, she struck
the shore near the Tower of Hook, and was soon after dashed
to pieces. So total has been the destruction, that we are
told not a plank of the timber work remains. Tier cargo
consisted of heavy goods, soap, hats. &c., and we are surly
to add that three of her -crew perished. The remainder,
however, consisting of 20 persons, were saved. The captain's
arm, we understand; was broken.—About three years ago, a
vessel of the same name belonging to the St. George Com-
pany, having mistaken the light, was lost, with her cargo, in
the same place. The lives were saved.

ROBBERY OF NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS,

The Doncaster Chronicle of Saturday contains the follow-
ing notice under the head of " Correspondence:—" A few
months ago, during our temporary absence from home on
business—a Doncaster Chronicle was ordered to be addressed

to ' John Crook, Esq., Clement's-inn Chambers, Strand.'
The paper was sent, and this week application was made for
payment of the account. We found John Crook, Esq.'
residing on the third flat; and when the subject of payment
for the paper was started, he professed himself to be very
sorry'— (no doubt)—`but the paper had been ordered by a
'young man without any author.ty from hint.' On our ex-
pressing surprise that, when he found the liberty taken with his
name he did not apprise the parties, who were thus swindled
out of their goods—he replied, that he was 'delicately situ-
ated,' forsooth; and then the trouble—he received between
forty and fifty papers in a.day,' to his great annoyance; and
to have .` to open all these, and to write to all the proprie-
tors !' We told him we could not comprehend his feelings
of delicacy,' and as to the annoyance,' we would take
care he should not long have to complain of that; as we
would apprise our brother proprietors of the trouble to which
h., was put, and no doubt they would soon relieve him from
the very disagreeable visitation."
In another part of the same paper the subject is thus
alluded to:—

" After we left 'John Crook, Esquire,' we confess we
were puzzled to know why the parties should be anxious to
get so many provincial newspapers into their bands: in the
course of the day the mystery was solved.
" Having been walking several hours, we sent to a cele-
brated restaurateurs,' in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly, to
procure sonic of the ' creature comforts,' which he so
rally dispenses. We were shown into a splendid dining-
room, fitted up in the usual London style; and on looking
around, one thing did surprize us—viz., the number of pro-
vincial papers—thirty or forty at least—which were in the
room, our own being amongst them. On inquiry, we found
that these papers were supplied to the proprietor at some-
thing less than half price -by some party in the city. We,
could not ascertain who supplied them, and, of course we do
not say it was the ' young man,' whOordered this journal to
be sent to J oho Crook, Esquire;' but, no doubt, it was
somebody who obtained the papers equally cheap (for we do
not know how things can be obtained cheaper than by not
paying for them), and who imposed upon the respectable
restaurateur (whom we most distinctly acquit of all intention
of doing wrong) by some well-invented tale of 'agency,' or
something of the kind, to account for his obtaining them.
We insert this statement, as well as the other, as a caution to
our brother proprietors."

PRECURSOR SOCIETY.

( From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

The new coach-and-six (the Precursor,) which Mr. O'Con-
nell is to drive through the Convention act, was turned out
yesterday for an experimental trip. Mr. Ignatius Callaghan
occupied the box-seat—whilst Peter Purcell, as guard, blew
the horn for the collection of the annual tribute. On the
suggestion of one of the Corporation of Bachelors—the
gallant and reverend "Rector" of Etnyvale—" the daughters
of the Green Island" were unanimously elected members of
the society ; whilst, on the motion of Mr. O'Connell, his
" dear friend General Cloony," was admitted to a similar
honour. As the Precurser Society affects to be legal, and to
pursue its objects by legal means, we must suppose that in
the authory which raised Mr. Cloony to the rank of " Gene-
ral" in the army, Mr. O'Connell and the other members re-
cognize a legal authority.
In commenting upon the proceedings of this Society, it is
obvious that our remarks must be chiefly, if not exclusively,
confined to Mr. O'Connell: he is the Society—the rest but
the wig and cloak, the shoes and inexpressibles with which
he keeps his body comfortable.
On this occasion he brought forward his promised address
to the radicals of England and Wales, prefacing it by a
speech, the objects of which appear three-fold—l. to per-
suade the population of this country that their condition
under the rule of Victoria is worse than that of the Poles
under the despotism of the monster Nicholas-2. to bolster
up the tottering fabric of whig administration—and 3. to
depreciate the rivals who tore Irons his brow the laurels of
English Popularity—Oastler, Stephens, and the once-beloved
Feargus O'Connor. The address to the British radicals dis-
creetly confines itself to the two latter of those objects ; but
it compensates -for the loss of a third part by the grossest
vituperation heaped upon the English people. lie contrasts
their agitation with his own, and accusing them of the most
treasonable and bloody•designs—says of them:—
"They speak of violence ;" and of himself, " Give me the
agitation that breaks no law, infringes no statute; give me
the agitation that takes away from no man his property, that
encourages no violence, and above all, and before alt, give
me the agitation that shudders, as it were, at the slightest
shedding of human blood." (Loud cheers.)
Nay, in Ireland this peaceful agitation will " not allow
one blow to be struck—one man's hand to be lifted in anger.
against another." Either the lamb like agitator speedily
forgets his "own rede"—or erects a different standard for
England; for, in the course of the proceedings, we find the
following happy illustration of his peaceful, legal, and con-
stitutional doctrines:— . .

• "I am glad," said Mr. O'Connell, "that there is so much
unanimity of feeling amongst us on the subject.' {the re-
specting the persons and pensions of our neighbours'.
" A man in the crowd here exclaimed—' And in England

too.'
"Mr. O'Connell—l thank you, Sir, but you do not appear
from your accent to be an Englishman.
" Man—No, Sir, but I !net O'Connor in Preston, and I
said I would kick the ruffian.
"Mr. O'Connell—iou never were more right in your life."

The - Times of Wednesday, received this morning, "has,
from the nature of his late addresses, very happily antici-
pated the course which the demagogue would take in his
address; and indeed it is so complete-a rafacciamenio of his
speeches (given in our columns elsewhere) that we do not
mean to stint our space by the idle repetition. Instead of it
we give the powerful and brilliant paragraphs of our distin-
guished contemporary, and doubt not that our readers will
thank us for the substitution:
'• He tells his whiskey-steeped admirers that the English
have always oppressed, and hated, robbed, and butchered
them, going back for illustrations to the treaty of Limerick,
what he calls the massacre of Mullimas, and the conquering
career of Cromwell, who, having a faithless and cruel enemy
to deal with, treated them on some occasions to a spice of
their own mercy and morality. But somehow or other, this
histortgrapher forgets the wholesale massacre of Protestants
in 1641, the burnings and tortures and pike-murders of 1796,
and the return made by the England of the 18th and 19th
centuries, for similar manifestations of goodwill from the
Irish race and their perpetual attempts for 300 years preced-
ing to sieze that power (under the name of iudependence)
which would have enabled them to make war on this country
as on a foreign kingdom, and become an ulcer in her side.
The England of this and the century before it has been re-
cognised by the whole civilised world as a generous benefac-
tress to Ireland. The vassalage of the Irish, entailed upon
them by their own ferocious hostility to Great Britain, the
people of this country have converted into a state of equal
freedom with their own. Our whole domestic history for the
last GO years has been but one series of beneficences heaped
on Ireland, unbroken save by the savage efforts (tithe Papists,
to repay our liberality from time to time with rebellion.
When famine raged among these grateful Irish, and when
their own bloated demagogues did nothing but whine to Eng-
lish charity for relief, who fed, and clothed, and comforted,
and saved the race of serpents, who are now taught to whet
their fangs for our destruction—who, but the detested' Eng-
lish nation?—The base-minded scoundrel who spits his daily
venom at the people of England, because they have learned
to despise his villainies and to 'reject his counsels, has the
folly to avow that when he and his papist accomplices were
weak, 'they cringed to us,' "but now thevlre strong enough
`they kick us off.' And this code Of magnanimity and mo-
rality it appealed to, as an answer to the reproaches which
all honest men have brought against its professors—viz., that
they have made promises which they never fulfilled, and took.
oaths which they have flatigiously broken. • Aye, we confess
it all; when weak, we cringed, when strong we bully; we
are perjurers, we are traitors; hurrah, boys! Who's afraid?
Lying, perjury, and Popery for ever!' "
Our able contemporary thus concludes :
"One word more. Mr. Daniel O'Connell declares that
the Irish Papists can have no further reliance on England,
bet must work out a repeal of the union for themselves. Now,
it is not the first time by a dozen that the Irish Papists, as a
military power, have set themselves, sword and pike in hand,
against the British Protestant and Papist as a power; and
what has hitherto been the result? By they have
done much; by 'cringing,' more; but what have they got by
fighting? Let them try again, if not yet satisfied. England
has no objection."
At the conclusion of the day's proceedings, we find that the
society adjourned himself to Tuesday week, being en route
to the county of Wexford in the interval.
We find it announced that in this great national movement
only eight or ten Barristers have embarked their character
and prospects. We know of but one Member of Parliament
(Mr. O'Brien, of Clare,) out of Mr. O'Connell's own family,
who has sanctioned the agitation with his name; and though
Priests in abundance crowd round the banner of agitation, no
gentleman of independent property or station has put his hand
to the preliminary Oriflam of Repeal. We are curious to
know—perhaps Mr. Ray, the Secretary of this and the Trades'
Union would be kind enough to inform us—how many of the

7iradestnenof Dublin have-enrolled themselveZtite books
of the Precursors ?
Theta is a topic of a nature so delicate, and of a character
so startling that in all former societies, and upon all by-gone
occasions, even Mr. O'Connell avoided any, the slightest al-
lusion to it in his manifold addresses and out-pourings. _ It

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cannot fail attracting observation that that gentleman's shy-
ness upon the subject is gradually giving way, and that the
deep-rooted sentiment of his heart is now from time to time
gradually developingitself, in sly, but affectionate references,
to the re-possession of the forfeited estates. Duke of Devon-
shire, Lord Lansdowne, Whig absentee landlords, look to
this!

NOVEL STEAM-SHIP.—A ship, called the Maria, of Lon-
don, Captoin Black, is now fitting out in the West India
Export Dock, with two locomotive steam-engines, and ma-
chinery of ten-horse power each, for the purpose of pro-
pelling the vessel by means of paddles, which are made to
ship and unship like coach wheels, and can be put on or
taken off without much trouble while the ship is under weigh.
The Maria is a vessel of near 500 tons burt hen, built at Yar-
mouth, and has made a sailing voyage to Quebec and back,
unaided by the power of steam. She is of the ordinary de-
seription of vessels of her class, and the engines and ma-
chinery are placed between two decks, occupying a space of
not more than twenty faet in length by five in width on each
side. The vessel is going to China, and the paddles are only
to be made available during calms and light winds, which it
is well known are met in certain latitudes on the East India
and China voyagers.