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 shohls. The catas—
trophe appears to have been %holly 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 Pitchy.
which also had a narrow escape Of being wrecked, having
run on shore off Oporto. Ihe following is the de~criptio■
of the catastrophe given by the commander, A. M'l.-od,
dated Vice-Consulate Office, District of Curcubion, Feb.
280846. ,

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"At 4 o'clock on the morning of the 24th inst., whilst
steering N.N.E., with a at rong wind from the S.S. W., and
a heavy sea running, and about seven to ten miles from
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 %ngine-room that
she soon became unmanageable from the tires being put
out, and consequently drillog towards the 1 ind, and
grounded in a small sandy shoal called Guros, about one
league and a half to southward of Coreunion, where she
lay with her head to the southward broads de on the beach,
at the distance of 300 yards, on which a heavy surf was
breaking. The boats were all got ready for lowering to
land the passengers and crew, and the lerbord Ile-boat
was sent with a party of -seamen and a line to haul a rope
on shore, wi ich they with difficulty reached in safety, ai.el
we soon after got a hawser on shore, and the end of it made
fa,t and hove taut from the ship. Air. Hatnilton, chief
officer, was sent in the launch with a party of passengers
and crew, amongst whom were several ladies at d children;
all were safely landed exc,r t Mrs. Archer, a child be-
longing to Mrs. Morris, 7 years old, and a native female
Indian servant, who were lost in the surf
oil the besch by
the swamping of thelaunch, thous h every exert onwas 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 baard, and baled out, made
several successful trips, arid all on board sere safely lan-
ded. By 11 a.m., going myself in the last trip, having
previously ascertained that every pert on was out of the ship
the sea at that period was breaking heavily crier her, and
she was fast breaking up on the starbo,rd side, amidsh;ps.
1. he pinnace was stove in lower hig, arid the star board quar-
ter boat by the sea striking her viol, ni ry. On getting on
shore I found several artich a of different kinds hid air. ad,
floated there, and a number of the p o pie of the coast had
come down and were plundering all they could get away,
though all means were tinker; to prevent it. In fact we
have been most shamefully plundered and rubbed in every
possible way."
Captain M'Leod complains greatly of the difficulty ex-
perienced at Corcubion, now the .-ant of prooer airangib-
ments by the consul there, who could not speak English,
was a person of no iritluer:ce. arid could render no assist-
ance of any sort.
On Wednesday, the twenty firth 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' hagrige, all in a moe
damaged state. Next ti• y, he noted a pr test, and was
granted by the mayor th, means of reir oving• the mails,
&c.; but the order to permit their rel. oval was not ac-
knowledged by the guards costa ; arid it was only after
considerable delay and d iliculty that they were permitted •
to be placed in the vice-consul's house temporarily, ens-
ing which period the syste n of plunder to which they
were exposed is represented as almost incredible. ()ti
the same evening the ship went entirely to pieces. The
mails were ultimately, with a portion of the passengem
got on board the Pacha; the remainder will be ship,red •
from Corunna, on board the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Queen, which was expected to sail
about the 17th ult. By a later ace,.lltit the passengers to
come forward from Cortinim are all well, and in a con-
dition of comfort. Her NI; jesty's consul had been has-
nished with troops to put down the plundering which was
being carried on, and to arrest the pluinhlrers.

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cial meeting of this .coulomy. on Thursday, resolutions
authorisingwinertehepacsaspeidtalstockof t
the company
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in •
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insurances.
Capitalists and others wishii g to purchase houses or
land. or to rent property of any deservi.m, will do well.
to apply to Mr. Williams. estate ag•-il. at whose offices
46, llanelagb-street, a lento h•-ned liar may be consulted.
THE SALE OF MR. JACKSON'S LAND
,ftT BIRRIST...
R EAD.—This sale is adveitiet d for l'ue.iia v next. the 17tbe
instant. The lots are rtuincious and varied, and so ad-
mirably laid out that they espartot toil to suit every class of
purchasers, whtther for ba,ine:.s prett•i'es. villa resi-
dences, cottage or elwelin.g..tiou,e property. Of the latter
there has long been a cono,pl4•nt of rcasciy, and, in ac-
cordance with the value 4.f land. the ,rut., bay, been con-
siderably higher than on 'he Liver, nnl side..
.P.lans have
buildings ou one portion ref th.- land [wing detrimental
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to an- other. It will be sold by Altsbis. J. and Le, Hod
.......s.
been prepared which will lire. cat the lioisibilllY or the
son, of Birkenhead.