The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

GREAT RISE IN FREIGHTS,

The following comparison of the present and ordinary
rate of corn freights,was given by Lord John Russell in
his motion for the suspension of the navigation laws :
" I will state to the house what is the ordinary freight
fora quarter of corn from various places to this country:
and what is at present paid. From the Danube the ordi-
nary rate of freight is 10s. a quarter ; but the present rate
is 16s. 6d. to 17s. per quarter. From Odessa the ordinary
rate is Bs., and the present rate is 13s. to 13s. 6d. From
the United States the ordinaryorate is ss. ; the present
rate is 12s. 6d to 13s. From the Baltic the ordinary rate
is 3s. 9d. to 4s. 6d. ; the present, supposing the navigation
were open, would be from ss. to ss. 6d. The increase in
the rate of freight is still more remarkable as affecting the
supply of Ireland. For instance, the ordinary' rate of
freight from London to Cork varies from ls. to Is. 3d. a
quarter, and at times is considerably below that; but at
- _

present the rate of freight is from 3s. to 3s. 6d.: and at
the same time there is considerable di,

:y tun:ling

vessels

THE " SIRIUS" STEAM-PACKET WRECKED
BALLYCOTTON-NINETEEN. LIVES LOST

(From the Cork Reporter of Saturday week)
We regret to announce that intelligence was this day
received by the enterprising owners of this fine vessel of
her having stranded on the coast, in the neighbourlood of
Ballycotton. From the nature of the information receiv-
ed up to the hour of our going to press, we are only
able to state that the Commander of Coast-guard at the
adjacent station, despatched at the hour of 7 o'clock
this morning a hurried note, to the Directors of the Cork
Steam Ship Company stating that the Sirius was ashore
about half a mile to the west of the Ballycotton station;
that a portion of the crew were discernable on board the
vessel, and others on a detached rock doy
commending for the purpose of protection t.
that a military force should be at once ser
The writer added that she was in imminent
lost—an anticipation
weather, there are gt
alised.
The Sirius left Dublin at I
terday morning for Cork, having been tem
on the line instead of the Ocean.
On the receipt of the note the active and zealous D..
tors of the Company at once took measures to send as
sistance to the scene, in which they were readily co-ope
rated with by the Admiral at Cove.
The Sirius is a splendid vessel of 700 tons, and 321
horse-power, and was the first Steamer that made a toy.
age across the Atlantic. She was timber built. .
In addition to the foregoing outline, which appeared in
the first edition, we have now the melancholy duty of re-
cording the loss of human life and of property to avast
amount, by the shipwreck of this fine vessel.
Between three and four o'clock this morning, the ves
sel, having made an excellent passage from Dublin to th
offing of Cork Harbour, struck, in a dense e"- - -----
of rocks in Ballycotton Bay, and insta

hich from the calmness of the

hopes, however, will not

ialf-past seven o'clock yes
'arily place

ternation, not In bE

,tied, pr

sengers. Captain Moffett, the
it advisable to back the ship off the
ertion with the engines and otherwise, sup,_
so ; but they were only a very short time clear of the
rocks when it became evident the vessel would not much
longer remain afloat, as she was making water fast,-and
had received serious injuries in her bottom and sides. She
was accordingly again turned towards the land, and very
soon after began to strike on a ledge, called Smith's Rocks,
about half a mile to the west of Ballycotton, with the
certainty of going to pieces in a few hours.
The total loss of the vessel being thus inevitable, f'
attention of all on board , --
of the crew and passengers,
alarm that prevailed, the life boat, which is usually c
carried over the paddle-box, was attached to the day,
and lowered, though unfortunately on the wrong side
the ship. This boat, we understand, was not equal t
accommodate more than eight, but immediately she wa
launched twenty crowded into her, principally deck pas
sengers, and before she wap well clear of the stearnei
melancholy to relate she was swamped, and all in her me
a watery grave save Captain .Cameron, of the Prince. --*
steamer, who was a passenger in the vessel from
Retaining his presence of mind at such a re-ed

ceeded

-as directed to the preservi

naged to keep himself afloat, and grasped a rope,
of which he was hauled on board. Meanivhile the
continued to thump heavily on the rocks, while the scream
of alarm from the affrighted passengers, and the heavy
surf breaking on her sides, and on the deck, rendered
the scene one of awful danger and intense anxiety_
Soon after the Const-guard boat from Ballycotton Sta-
tion, under command of Mr. Coghlan, chief officer, came
alongside, and the ship's boats having by this time been
also launched, the remaining passengers were got into
them, and safely landed, though with the loss of , every
portion of their luggage. We are sorry to learn that the
country people of that wild.and wretched locality availei
of the melancholy occasion to carry off'

;verything

carpet bag ripped open with a 'knife; and - having bees
plundered of all its contents, it was thrown on the bead
as useless. In fact the passengers who arrived in town
had barely the clothes on their back, and were obliged to
purchase or borrow changes of linen, &c.
The deck passengers who were drowned were prim'
pally policemen, some who had gone up in the Va-
in charge of convicts. •
Up to the last accounts the ship was fast Romp.

nguard

pieces, and probably aft
vestige of her left. None of th

but it was thought O.
would be washed ashort
The number of passengers and crew on board the Sirit

iunday they

seventy-

one of whom haVe been saved. She had a very large and
valuable cargo from Glasgow and Dublin, principally bale
goods, groceries, musical instruments, books, furniture
packages, &c., and among them it is '
theatrical wardrobes, worth a large sum, belonging to th
celebrated comedian Mr. George Wild, of the Olytnii
Theatre, London.
Her cargo is valued at £30,000, and the v"
£15,000. The latter was insured for £lO,OOO

is five cases of