The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-19 00:00:00

.lion where no earthiy
soon as the accident

boat was let down,

1 it did their utmost to

pot in
beings were carried by the

could not approach th

, of whom three were picked up by
only (a French seaman) was rescued
laving died from exhaustion and cold
mil regain the steamer. Two other
innate enough to regain the shore by

ied are two
Char!

kmerican

_ ssengers
Philip de la Rosie

scertained, the

having been obliterated by the water;
) the pilot, and his -son, and four

. was universally respected by every
e sad and peculiar fate of his son has
sympathy and admiration at his
rst who was rescued from the water,

perceiving his father at some

leaped into the

exertions be reached

a breaker separated them for
i has not yet been

)ags would be lost,

s to be of little worth ;
tate to be

'erect and in a fit

.e assistance

An English gen-

r and saved two of

due to the activity of a
iequir, commonly called

1 possible speed with

two sailors who swam ashore
'rom the edge of the water to

T and Cator (t 1

'men net yet, but it is expected

ON AT BRENTFORD.-
ON OF PROPERTY AND

3 of Yesterday.)

unity took plac
ng of the lock g

,ng out of the milers, which sunk a
ats, and caused the loss of ten lives.
) the late thaw, and the heavy rains

w, a great acenmulationof the
town of Breneford was in many
ipal streets under water, and
.d. The land waters from the

imes to r
the canal

'eral feet above the

I creeks leading to the
of the Brentford lock, on Satur-
:raft, boats and barges, were wait-
ily the gates of the lock, unable
the water, were burst open, and
a torrent, and overwhelmed the
some and destroying others. A
. Nearly every barge had one
rd, and the monkey-boats (long

at one end, which
in each. The cries

and tb

;creams of the wommt

d amidst the rushing of the waters,
before it. The various craft were
r, and a great quantity of timber set
)y, in making an effort to get ashore
ied ; and a family of seven children,
of one of the monkey-boats, went

atery gray

A woman in

Mani swam a

re, which

:e, and others were say-
assistance. After the

n and unexpected calamity
,t was ascertained that two

nothcr with

Aber barges, empty, had also
00 stacks of timber were set
bout yesterday morning in all di-

pped in -a sail, was

the tide had receded: The others have
Teat injury has been done to the banks
dden eruption of the waters, and the
iense. It is reported that other per-
: ebb-tide was remarkably strong on
;terday, and the craft going down the

th great Velocity, which was caused

lition of the land waters. The boats
inst the tide, had considerable diffi-

ty, and the Thames police galleys had
g the bridges, and were often carried
current. The ice has almost totally
Ter upwards, and the rain has sunk
ow bridge, which, for a fortnight be-
.t an obstruction to the navigation.

NWICH, LEWISHAM, &c.
,w, accompanied with a violent
light, has been productive of
particularly to market-

s persot
s of Green
Saturday

Deptford, Lee

the principil streets of

d; and many houses on the south side
filled with water. Temporary
people to get from one
midnight, on Saturday,

leight, carried away a considera-
ie river Ravensbourne, situated

n, and in two places r

osity into the grounds of Mr. Palmer,
ving along with it the fences in all
n a quarter of an hour the whole of
tely under water, and his
A the centre, was encircled with
. feet. Mr. Palmer has sustained
flood carried away nearly the w hole
surface along with the growing
—Able flints, lumps of chalk,
`-•rres were obliged to

.e comp

tes of man:
)oms, leavit

tes, gave way, and por-
y the stream. It is not

.ves have been lost, as numbers of

ht as well as by day

issing through Lee to Eltham,
nearly three quarters of a mile. The
am has been under water during the

is not a vestige of snow visible

on any high land in th

valleys hav

presented nearly one

!ntly reported here that

.v-General for Ireland, has
1 bill for amending the act
of electors in Ireland. It

AS of tt

11 arc of such a com-

y to ensure the support of
tails are laid before Parlia-
ernment here attribute this

part of ministers, to induce
s bill, from the alleged simila-

N under the consideration

—On Tuesday last an accident of a
one which might have been attended
equences, occurred on the Slamannan
s it was, several of the passengers
nd all of them wete thrown into a
nsternation and alarm. When the
t from fifty to sixty passengers, was

g at a