The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-31 00:00:00

LIST OF PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED.

&Loot{ :—Wm. Thompson. FIRST CLASS :—Samuel
Bishop, Wm. Bishop, Francis Bowden, B. Bowden, G.
Catts, W. Clarke, T. Comballach, Wm. Cuddy, G. Fisher,
Peter F. Framaine, J. Grundy, J. W. Hegarty, R. Hol-
land, T. Johnston, F. Johnston, T. Kemp, R. T. Lauson,
J. M`Nanghten, Pole, J. F. Robinson, R. Sheridan, J.
Stoddart, Alexander Thomas, J Thomas, T. Tiberton, Toy
S. Tough, Thomas Ward, R. Wearne, Joseph Wearne,
A. Wetyle. SEcottn CLiss : —R. Alexander, H. Bray-
man, Gerald Burke, T. Cattram, F. Coppin, G. Downes,
James Eddy, Michael Fleming, J. Gibson, W. A. Gordon,
M. Hurst, Albert Jackson, R. Leahy,John Luscan,J. Miller,
F. Ormsberg, J. Oufferht, J. Phillips, W. Phillips, Yeo
Richard, Michael Ridy, F. S. Shaw, J. Smith, W. Spencer,
W. Starman, Edward Tew, John Thompson, J. Thomp-
son, A Titiss, W. Turner,— Virgo; John Vout, B. Wat-
son, J. Wilson. THIRD CLASS :—W. Addison, Alex.
Berr, John Berr, J. Carter, John Carty, Anne Carty, J.
Friend, Koppin, M. Matthews, Thos. Meara, R. Smear!,
William Thomas.
INTERMEDIATE :—John Ball, Barbio, Rayard, J.
Berryman, J. Berryman, W. J. Blair, E. Burne, M.
Byrne, S. Carley, Sarah Anne Carley, (his wife,) and R.
Carley, (his son,) G. F. Chamberlain, R. Cherry, A. Cow-
ley, R. Dawson, A. De Comera, Messrs Doite, Jos. Faph,
P. Finlay, John Foy, W. Geifrey, Richard Gibbon, John
Gill, M. Green, David Hackney, Herman, Thos. James,
Samuel Jenkins, T. Kerkhouse, A. Lamane, W. Leggo, G.
Lewis, T. Lloyd, Mario, Perrard, S. Prockman,
Richard Ryder, John Ryder, Wm. Ryder, Wm. See, J.
Shaw, Hamilton Sloan, Lorenzo Stehardt, J. Swift,
Samuel Thomas, Joseph Todhunter, J. Tobin, T. Twill,
W. Vevers, Vonbourg, J. Whitmarsh, James Williams,
J. Worm, G. Yates.
STEERAGE :—H. Abrahamson, C. Barrow, Barton,
Bentz, Henry Bridgeman, J. Browu, R. P. Browne,
Thomas Browne, C. Chaddick, W. Collins, John Collins,
T. Connor, Thomas Constantine, P. Cormick, Michael
Cormick, G. Crawford, T. Creen, Thomas Crop, J. Dia-
mond, D. Driscoll, A. Fahy,.Alex. Frazer, Hugh Frazer,
W. Good. E. Hall, J. Harpen, S. Huntly, J. Johnston, B.
Klatiershaft, William Leneham, Alexander Lyons, A.
Magee, G. Mcßride, W. W.Carley, J. M'lcay, James
McKay, P. M'Mahon' T. Moody, J. Montford, J. O'Brien,
J. Oldfield, James Organ, J. Popham, J. Raleigh, J.
Richmond, Con. Ryan, W. Sawdy. B. Shewell, John
Swan, Thomas Taylor, R. Thompson, (of Ohio,) J. Wat-
son, T. Willite.
An infant of nine months old, with no person to claim
it ; a man on the island not known ; four left the island ;
one black seaman. Total number of passengers saved, 225.
The following are the names of the crew who were
saved :—Abo, Abo, Abo, three Chinese seamen ; M. A. R.
Adams, purser; John Aylmer, seaman; J. Browne, do. ;
J. Burban, do.; Thomas Burke, steward; Nicholas Can-
dari, seaman ; Wm. Cook, passenger, steward ; William
Cowan, apprentice ; Wm. Denis, seaman ; J. Ferguson,
passenger, steward ; H. Fitzsimon. sailmaker ; J. Frazer,
carpenter ; Nicholas George, seaman ; J. Greenub,
steward; Thomas Harper, do.: G. Humphrey, assistant-
purser; Frederick Hunt, seaman; J. Irwine, do. ' • A.
Jack, cook's mate ; John Jones, seaman ; Judge Julien,
J: M. Lennan, seaman ; B. Leenehan, cook • W. Leene-
han, do. ; A. Maclean, seaman ; J. J. Martin, do. • John
Marromati, do. ; Charles Maxwell, sailmaker ; R. Mit-
chell, seaman ; Antonio Nicholas, do. ; S. Prairam,
steward ; E. Pratt, second-purser ; Wm. Ray, apprentice ;
W. Rendell, assistant-steward ; Peter Reed, boy;' John
Rice, cook ; F. J. Roberts, steward ; J. Roberts, seaman ;
Thomas Roberts, do. ; Demetri Rolando, do. • T. Rowland,
do. ; J. Saunderson, sailmaker ; W. D. Sheridan, boat-
swain; W. Skeizig, steward; William Taylor, passengers'
cook ; Thomas Trotter, passenger, servant ; William
Trumbell ; H. Wallace, apprentice ; E. Wills, steward ;
John West, seaman ; J. Williams, do. ; and Peter Wole-
chewick.
Total passengers saved, 225 ; do. crew, 54 ; Captain
Noble, 1; William Murphy, chief-officer, 1; Cowan, 3d
officer 1. Total saved, 282.

THE CORONER'S INQUEST.
The inquiry into the cause of this melancholy disaster
was commenced on Friday, at Malahide, by Henry Davis,
Esq., county coroner, who had two of the bodies removed
by a steam-tug from the island, on Thursday, for the pur-
poses of the inquest. The bodies, which were those of a
fine little boy, the son of Dr. Cunningham, the late medi-
cal officer of the Tayleur, and that of the second mate of
the ship, were chosen on account of their being best
known, and therefore the most easily identified. A great
number of the friends and relatives of the deceased at-

tended to watch the proceedings.
The CORONER, in addressing the jury, said,—As to the
cause of the death you will have no difficulty in coming to
a conclusion, but your attention will be particularly direct-
ed to the causes which led to such a fearful result, as that
a vessel leaving the port of Liverpool should be ship-
wrecked on an island more like a mountain rising out of
the middle of the ocean, and, as I understand it will be
placed in evidence before you, at a time when there was
no more wind blowing than a sailor would wish to have.
What may have been the cause of the accident it is for
you to inquire.
The following witnesses were then examined.

John Aisladre, of Yorkshire, one of the passengeri, said
—I was a second-cabin passenger, with my wife and
daughter, of four years of age ; I am an upholsterer, and I
went on board the vessel on last Saturday week, the 14th,
at Liverpool; she was in the roads ; I went in a steamer to
her ; I was on board from that till the following Thursday;
she was in the roads all that time ; I saw a dead body ; it
is that of the second mate • I last saw him alive previous
to his being washed over fast Saturday ; I also saw the
dead body of a child, but I cannot identify it ; at five mi-
nutes to eleven o'clock, by my watch, Liverpool time, on
Saturday morning, I heard the first cry of " Land ahead ;*
I was then below in the cabin ; I looked at my watch at
the time, it being on the table ; I remained below with my
little daughter for some considerable time, several minutes
before I went on deck ; when I reached the deck the vessel
had not struck ; it was some few minutes before the star-

board anchor was let go; I can't say who it was that cried
" Land ahead ;" the fact of the cry raised tremendous con-
fusion in the cabin ; after the anchor was let go I rushed
on deck a second time, I having gone below a little pre-
viously ; the vessel struck very soon after the anchor was
let go ; it was probably gone twelve o'clock ; we were about
60 or 70 yards, not more that 100, from the land when the
anchor was let go ; I knew it was let go by the noise of the
noise of the cable ; she struck upon the rock broadside on ;
it was rather hazy at the time, but there was light to see
for some two or three miles about us at least; I was on
deck several times during the morning, but I had not seen
land; I had very many opportunities of seeing the crew; I
was very much interested in that affair ; I am not a nauti-
cal man, but I have several times been as a passenger, and
I am living in a seaport town ; I could not form an idea of
the number of the crew, but there were sadly too many of
them that were not English ; there were three or four
Chinamen.
To a Juror.—l don't think any of them could speak or
understand English.
Witness.—There was a Lascar steward, but, I think,
there were no sailors Lascars ; there was a regular med-
ley of forrignere ; there might be about twenty of the
crew Englishmen ; I should say the greater part of the
British portion of the crew were able seamen ; accord-
ing to my opinion, the remainder was ordinary seamen;
I mixed with them a considerable deal ; when orders
were given to the fereigners they did not appear to un-
derstand them.
To a Juror.—That occurred to me long before the acci-
dent • in fact, immediately after leaving port.
Witness.—l heard directions given to reef the topsails
before the Saturday. On that occasion they were not
reefed in proper time ; it took upwards of an hour and a-
half to reef the maintopsail. The delay occurred, princi-
pally, in my opinion, from there not being enough of able-
bodied men to do the work.
To a Juror.—Capt. Noble told me the crew were 70, and
an apprentice told me 32. .
Witness : I did not hear the captain make any observa-
tion about the time it took to reef these sails ; in my
opinion there was not half a sufficient number of men on
board for such a ship ; the first time I formed that opinion
the second mate and I were on the deck, with several
other passengers ; that was on the Friday morning pre-
ceding the accident; on that occasion I said to the second
mate I thought they were as badly fixed on deck for a
crew as we were below for stewards;" and at the same
time I said, "it was my opinion that it was nothing but
propel that we should return to Liverpool or put into
some place to shelter;" he said, "If we put back to Liver-
pool or any other port every seaman on board would leave
the ship;" and he said it in such a manner as led me to
believe he would leave himself; he said- "there was such a
scandalous crew on board the ship that it was impossible
to manage her in any way ;" about the time we struck,
the captain, mate, second mate, and third mate did every-
thing in their power to prevent the accident.
To a Juror: We were on the larboard tack at, the time.
They did everything they could to wear the ship, but she
would not work from the ropes being too stiff and the
crew not being able to the work.
Witness.—My belief is that the vessel had a proper
crew aboard, and everything was right, that we would have
made a most prosperous voyage, and no accident would
have occurred; the ropes would scarcely pull through the
blocks; the deck was covered with coils of rope from the
manufacturer ; we had a nigger on board who worked up
to the last *moment ; the vessel was not fit to sail when she
did, and if she was a week longer she would not be fit ; we
bad a great many sailers on board as passengers ; the un-
prepared state of the vessel and the inefficiency of the
crew were salads, at different Ames, of conversation be
-
I tw?cn us ; it: was blowing. very bud on Thursday night,.