The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-17 00:00:00

BRIGHTON

The Prince Regent, a vessel belonging to London and
bound to Portsmouth with a general cargo. She swung to,
and was carried to, within about 50 yards of the shore be-
tween Brunswick-terrace and Copperas-gap. The life-boat
put off, but it stuck fast in the beach. By means of Captain
Manby's mortar a line was thrown over the vessel and a rope
was communicated with the vessel. Young, the chief boat-
man of the Copperas-gap Coast guard station, succeeded, al-
though at great peril, in reaching the vessel. The crew were
found in an extremely exhausted state, but they were success-
fully hauled on shore, the captain being the last to leave his
vessel. On reaching land, the crew, consisting altogether of
only five, with the captain, gave a hearty cheer, led by the
youngest boy, only about 12 years of age. The whole, with
one exception, were obliged to be carried to the next inn, (the
Ship, at Hove,) where they were put to bed. While the tide
remained high every breaker dashed over the vessel, sending
the spray a couple of hundred feet inland. She is now, the
tide having left her, dry on the beach, and exertions are
making to land a part of the cargo ; but, the gale continuing
to blow with unabated fury, it is feared that at the next high
tide the vessel will go to pieces. The John and 'William, a
tine vessel belonging to Brighton, with 550 quarters of barley
is lost, about eight miles eastward of that port, and two of
the crew arc drowned. She is a complete wreck and not a
grain of the barley is to be seen. The Defiance stage coach,
was upset by the wind with inure than a dozen passengers,
but no one was hurt. Several stacks of chimnies have fallen
in various parts of the town, and unfortunately in one instance
killed a little child, and several other parties had narrow
escapes.

YARMOUTH

The schooner Phoenix, of London, was driven ashore
early on Friday rr orning, and it was feared she would go to
pieces. The crew saved themselves by the boats. Two
other vessels went on the bank, but they were expected to be
got off if the weather moderated. During the morning up-
wards of 200 vessels lost their anchors and cables by the
extraordinary violence of the wind. At Sheerness four ves-
sels drove on shore, and they were expected to become
wrecks. The stern of the Friends' Goodwill, of Colchester,
was thrown on the beach near Dover ; and it appears the
vessel was capsized during the voyage, and the crew only es-
caped by jumping into the stern-boat, which they managed
to cut away. Several schooners were nearly lost. About
the same hour the Ann and Avis schooner, from London,
capsized in the channel, and immediately went down. About
ten o'clock on Friday morning, a large American ship called
the Samarang, from New York to Hull, having a valuable
cargo on board, was seen by the Deal pilots drifting away
to sea from the Downs, wholly unmanageable; both masts
had been cut away, and the crew had abandoned the vessel.
Her fate is at present unknown. Her crew have since reacheh
Broadstairs in safety.

LONDON.
The hurricane was at its height at London at one o'clock
on Friday, having commenced early in the morning. The
metropolitan journals of Saturday give distressing accounts ofits ravages in and around the metropolis. Some of the
streets were strewed with fragments of broken chimney-pots,
tiles, slates, &c. ; while out of town, trees, palings, &c. had
been blown down in all directions. Mr. Feltham, a cow-
keeper, of Somerstown, was killed by the fall of a stack of
chirnnies in Portland-place. The steamer Monarch sunk
in the river at Limehouse. The crew were saved, but the
cargo (teas, &c.) is next to valueless.

IRELAND.
The hurricane was severely felt over the whole of Ireland.
A letter from Wexford, dated Saturday, informs us, that it
began to blow early on the preceding evening, and increased,
towards midnight, to a complete tempest. We lament to
state, that the ship Santon, Captain Huxtable, from Calcutta
for this port, one of Messrs. T. and J. Brocklebank's fleet,

went on shore, in the course of the night, in Ballyteigue DO,
about two miles from the spot where the American ship
Vermont was lost a few months ago. Captain Huatable and
three of his crew, we lament to add, were drowned. The
ship would, it was feared, become a complete wreck.

SUNDERLAND

At Sunderland, two ships were wrecked in the course of
Thursday night. On Friday forenoon two brigs were driven
on shore at Tynemouth. One was the Percy, Hair, from
Sunderland, which soon broke in nieces. Her erptv

kat.,
townsmen, the most of whose fatuities were amongst the as-
sembled spectators on the beach) were exposed to the most
fearful danger. A rope was thrown to the deck, and the
• .

apparatus put into operation. Captain Hair, the cook, and
his son were put into the slings, but, from the lurching of
the vessel, to which the rope was attached, they were, it is
supposed, thrown out, and all three drowned. The fate of
Mr. Hair (who struggled for nearly twenty minutes amidst
the raging surf, catching at one time the rope with his heel,
and then approaching almost to the rock. as if determined
not to die) was past describing; but, alas! he, as well as his
comrades, perished under the eye of friends, family, and ac-
quaintance. His body has since been found. The remainder
of the crew were saved by the heroism and bravery of a
boatman at Tynemouth Haven, who stripped off his clothes,
put off in a boat; and succeeded in rescuing the remainder of
the crew, four in number. The life-boat approached so near
t- ' -..at the lives of the men in her, but

as to hazard in great peril
did not succeed in reaching the vessel

ILFRACOMBE, SALCOM/3E, &C

At Ilfracombe the schooner Ringdove, from Prince Ed-
ward's Island, was totally lost during the storm within s few
miles of the Harbour, and has since gone to pieces. The
crew were saved by a boat belonging to the Coast Guard

Service, which took them off the vessel just before she
struck. Another vessel called the Diligence, Edwards mas-
ter, of Aberdovy, went down in deep water off the Grassholm.
The crew took to the boat, and landed at St. David's abuut
four o'clock on Friday afternoon. The vessels are valued
at £1,200.
SALCOMBI

—A fearful storm raged here for twenty-four
hours, unroofing the houses in the town, and tearing
up trees by their roots. In the river several vessels have
driven from their moorings, and two ships, the Dove and the
Commerce, are on shore outside the harbour, in a most dan-
gerous situation.

At Hull the gale was also severely felt. A vessel called
the John and Susan, from Shoreham to Stocton, was wrecked
at about 4 o'clock in the morning, near Lower Coates' for-
tunately the crew were saved.

Among other wrecks reported to have occurred in the
hurricane are the brig Resolution at Orfordness, crew saved ;
a Scotch schooner near the same spot; the William the
Fourth and the Moore upon the sands in Stokes-bay ; the
Despatch on shore at Mistley ; the Two Brothers on shore
at Southsea beach ; the Henry Brougham on shore at Fake-
field, and two otbers.
It is feared that two or three vessels foundered in the
course of Friday morning off Dungenness, and that all on
board perished.

A dreadful shipwreck happened near Boulogne,_ within a

short distance of the spot where the Reliance East Indiaman
was lost a short time since. The Albion, Captain Thompson,
in making through the Downs for the Thames, was driven
on shore, where she became a wreck. The crew, it is feared
all perished.

CORK.
We learn, from the Cork Constitution of Saturday, that
the storm was severely, though not fatally, felt in and near
the city, particularly on Friday. It commenced with vivid
flashes of lightning; and thunder was heard from the west-
ward. At six in the morning it blew a hurricane, and con-
tinued with little abatement until evening. The shops' shut-
ters were closed during the day, lest the glass should be
blown_Jn. A number of large trees were blown down in the
neighbourhood. At Cove some of the shipping sustained
damage—including the Royal Saxon, from China.

THE EXTRAORDINARY FALL OF THE

BAROMETER.

The Manchester Guardian, of Saturday, thus notices the
phenomenon of the extraordinary fall of the mercury.:—
"Yesterday there was one of the most remarkable depressions
of the barometer that has been observed in this town since
the year 1824, when one very nearly similar occurred. Du-
ring the greater part of Thursday, although there was a
severe frost, the mercury was low, and inclining downwards.
Towards evening it began to fall with great rapidity; and, at
eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, had reached the extraor-
dinary law point of 27,90. according to avery good barometer,
belonging to Mr. Ronchetti, of Market-street. Most of the
wheel-barometers in the town, including the one upon the
Exchange, which is a very good one, had passed the lowest
point of depression marked upon them, .and appeared to be
a little above 'settled fair.' About half-past eleven, the ba-
rometer began slowly to rise again ; at seven o'clock yester-
day evening it had reached 28,10, and was then steadily
rising. No doubt this very extraordinary variation in the
barometic pressure was connected with some violent convul-
sion of the atmosphere, of which we shall, probably, hear
the particulars in a few days. Here we had nothing more
extraordinary than a strong gale from-the south or southwest,
which began shortly after midnight, and blew in sudden and
violent gusts unlil seven or eight o'clock In the morning.
The remainder of the day was nearly calm, with occasional
showers; and towards evening heavy rain set in, with every
appearance of a continuance.
" Since the above was written, we have received a com-
munication from Dr Dalton, through M r. Peter Clare, which
gives a somewhat different account of the depression yester-
day. And it is obvious from a comparison oP the results
obtained from his and Mr. Ronchetti's instruments, that
they are differently gradnated ; Dr, Dalton's standing about
one-tenth of an inch higher on each observation. The fol-
following are the particulars with which the doctor has fur-
nished us :

" Yesterday (Thursday) at 6 o'clock p.m., the mercury

began to descend' in the barometer, and in fine hours sunk
'l2 of an inch, when it stood at 28,05 inches. This, (Friday)
morning at eight o'clock, it stood 28.15 in., and gradually
descended until 2 p.m., when it was observed at 28 62, being
lower by .16 of an inch than Dr. Dalton ever observed it at
Manchester. The only depression which he has found in
his journal of observations made in Manchester for upwards
of 49 years, that approaches the nearest to the present, oc-
curred on the 23rd of November, 1824, when the mercury
stood at 28-18 inches. The mean height of the Barometer,

as adduced from the doctor's observ-ations for the last 49
years, is 26,885, being 1-865 inch higher than the height it
stood at to-day (Friday). The mercury is now ascending
rapidly at 4 p.m., it was 23-10 ; at 8 p.m.. it was 28-20
at 9 p.m., it was 28-27.'

Mr. Holden, the astronomer, has also noticed the pbe-;
nomenon in a letter addressed to the editor of the Preston
Pilot.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON PILOT

" Sin,—This morning, (Friday, January 13th) the baro-
meter was lower than I have seen it at any time since I began
to observe. At Bh., a.m., the mercury, in a standard ba-
rometer was at 27-99; at 11h. 30m., a.m. it stood at 27.93.
This is very uncommon, and particularly so at the low eleva-
tion which my house is above the level of the sea, whi^h cannot
exceed 80 feet. As the vo heel barometers, some of them have
actually gone round to ' very dry ' I expect we shall hear of
a great storm that has happened somewhere, either this
morning or last night.—l am, sir, yours, &c.,

" Jordan-street

"• M. H OLDEN."

STATEMENT OF BAROMETER AT THE LITERARY AND
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION, ON FRIDAY, JANUARY
13, 1812, AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Barometer
Attached Thermometer so'
External do. 3G.

CORRESPONDENCE,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

S 111,-1 request the favour of your inserting in to-morrow's
Standard the enclosed correspondence. Those numbered
1,2, 3, are copies; that 4, is the original. To the dispas-
sionate judgment of the parishioners generally, I leave it to
be decided whether the coarse and offensive language applied
to ►ne in the letter No. 4 could possibly be justified by the
fact of my having civilly requested the writer to correct the
exclusive title of " Catholic," which, as I have always
maintained, belongs to the clergy of that branch of the
Catholic Church established in this realm, and is unjustly
assumed by the separatists who adhere to the foreign Church
of Rome ; and whether the threat of personal violence which
that letter contains can possibly be worthy the character and
principles of one who boasts of himself that he is episcopally
ordained, and therefore a divinely consecrated minister of
the gospel of peace. I am not sorry, also, to furnish the
parishioners with a specimen of what they might expect in
language and temper, if ever such a priesthood should ge
upper hand.—l am your obedient servant,
WILLIAM BIRKETT,
(Churdhwarden of the Parish of Liverpool.)
January 16th, 1843.

1.
" SIR,—In accordance with the resolution, of which we
hand you a copy on the other side, we, the Catholic clergy
of St. Mary's Chapel, Edmund-street, on behalf of our con-
gregation, beg respectfully to lay before you the destitute
state of the poor children committed to our pastoral care, in
the hope that, as a friend to morality and education, you
may be induced to aid us in providing them with the means
of instruction.
" Our district comprises the whole of that part of the town
which lies north of Dale-street, and west of Bvrom-street
and Vauxhall-road, and is, as will readily be conceived, the
poorest district and most densely populated with Catholic
children of any in the town.
" From the result of our inquiries, we are assured that
there are upwards of 1,000 poor Catholic children in our
district left in total ignorance, for whilst every other district
in the town has a school attached to each Catholic chapel,
which though inadequate to the wants of the Catholic popu•
lation in those districts, affords education to large numbers
of children, in our district the poverty of our flock has hith-
erto rendered them unable to build a school, but with the
blessing of God and the aid of a generous public, we propose
to remedy this crying evil, and to erect a school capable of
containing a thousand children, where they may receive an
education that will not only contribute to their advancement
in life, but by teaching them the duties of man to his fellow-
man, and of the creature to his Creator, make them become
good citizens and worthy members of society.
" Whilst the school question was in agitation, and we had
the sympathy and support of men of great character and
attainments who differed from us in religious views, we had
' hoped almost against hope' that provision would be made
out of the public funds for the education of the poor, but now
that the town-council have by a large majority decided that
we shall not have education upon the only terms which, con-
s!stently with our religious principles, we can accept it, we
ask you—we entreat all by the instinctive feeling of sympathy
which man feels for his fellow-man, by the natural claims
which the poor have upon the wealthy, and above all, and
before all, by the touching appeal of the ignorant and unen-
lightened for their information and instruction, to help us in
erecting a school for their accommodation.
" Though our appeal be now to the benevolence and
charity of the public, we may humbly
suggest that our
children, having been deprived of a participation in the com-
mon funds of the borough, they have indirectly some claim
upon the justice of the community to provide them with
education.

" Subscriptions will be gratefully received at our Chape.
House, 50, Edmund-street, and at the Liverpool Borougt
Bank, in Water-street. _

, -
" THOMAS FISHER,
" JAMES WILKINSON,
" WILLIAM DALE.
" Edmund-street, Liverpool, 19th Dec., 1842."

"'At a MEETING of CATHOLICS of the DISTRICT of ST.
MARY'S CHAPEL, Edmund-street, Liverpool, held at the
Grecian Hotel, on the 16th December, 1842,
The Rev. .TAMES WiLicnrsort i❑ the Chair,
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :-
4" I.—That this meeting views, with feelings of deep re-
gret, the decision of the Town Council, on Wednesday last,
whereby all hope of the poor Catholic children of the town
being educated at the expense of the common fund of the
borough has been virtually annihilated, and the burden of
educating their destitute poor has thus been thrown on the
members of the faith already overburdened with the support
of their own churches and charitable institutions, for they
cannot receive instruction in the form now offered at th
Corporation Schools.
" ' 2.—That considering education to be one of the great-

eat blessings that can be conferrea upn youth, We feel that,
notwithstanding nm- mqny other reapnnsihilities, it is Our
duty as Catholics, Men, to 10:41
to edwate the Catholic child..-
been abandoned to
the public purse.
" '3.—Thit in pursuance of the above resolution
forthwith issue an address to the friends of educatiP-
religious denominations, in the town, intreatin,-
us by their contributions
children, which has been rein
duty it was to have provided it
, 4

gnoraiit

in providir

•. sac: ct igorous Struggle
the town, who have thus

—That we der our helt ai
bers of the Town ten
Council who,eartf th
while th
creed, have so ably and so well advocate(
poor Catholic children to a secular educati
their religious principles.

' JAMES WILKINSON, (

them to a

"REVEREND SIR,--I have to acknowledge the receipt 0
a printed circular, signed Thomas Fidler, James Wilkinson
and William Dale, in which they style themselves 01,
Catholic clergy of St. Mary's Chapel, Edmund-street,
together with a printed copy of resolutions adopted at
meeting of Catholics of the district of St. Marv's Chapel
Edmund-street, held on the 16th December, -1842, over
which you presided.
" As I cannot recognise any one as a Catholic clergy mar
of this town, who has not taken orders, and made a declara.
tion in conformity with the rubric of the established churcl
and the laws of the realm, nor any ecclesiastical district that
has not received the legal sanction of the Lord Bishop of the
Diocese, (the Bishop of Chester,) which, the one alluded to
to my certain knowledge, has not, Edmund-street being, it
fact, within the ecclesiastical district of the Parochial Chape'
of our Lady and St. Nicholas, and under the spiritual care
of the Catholic rectors of the parish and their curates •
feel myself under the necessity of returning them to you'foi
correction in these main particulars.
I am, Reverend Sir, your obedient servant,
" ILLIAM EIRKETT, " Churchwarden of t W
he Parish of Liverpool.
"St. Nicholas', 3d January, 1843.
" To the Rev. James Wilkinson, Chairman.'

4.
"SlR,—Though I cannot but character..
you have been pleased to address to me as 1L
presumptuous, yet as I readily give you credit for ncerny, ,
and attribute in a great measure to ignorance the t ,ted and
intolerant effusions in which you are in the hat i.
ging, I will, for your instruction, reply to ve- ,e 'a.
" And, first with regard to my ordi'not entered the ministry by making tilay
by the rubrics of the established church, AAir(
r,
inform you that the rubrics of that church
ae •
lidity of my ordination ; and if from a des,
.ve
labour and better pay on any other equally cre, mot
'
I were to apostatize from the faith of
my rather, ?.b
a creed in conformity with the "laws of the rea ana
bi
of your church would readily admit the validity my
nation, and at once appoint me to a cure
" Before you, a layman, a,
to a clergyman upon a subject, on
~ utly of v
intelligent anci
well educated minister of the established church will tell
you that you are evidently uninformed, I would re.--
suggest to you that " the better part of valour is d'
and that from other hands you may receive
which it would be unbecoming in me to inflict.
" And now as to my designating myself a Catholic elerg.
man. lam (I say it in all reverence, and with a sense of my
own unworthiness) a " Catholic clergyman," a humble mi-
nister of the ancient faith—" Catholic" in every attribute
and in every sense—" Catholic" in all ages and in all nations
" Catholic " in history, in geogra-
phy, Catholic" by the received and admitted consent of man-
attreadvellers, in the senate, at the bar, in
in the drawing-room, and in every
ktphtneyl—piunpbrltoihepee
jwroloyurrdunesasliso7f*
other department and locality (unless an exception be found
in the vestry of the church of " our Lady and St. Nicholas.")
" Are we then to be told, in the nineteenth century, by the
member of a church established by and in conformity with
the " law of the realm," and whose recent origin and very
constitution render the name " Catholic," as applied to his
church, a mockery, that we have for centuries usurped a title
which he has now discovered belongs to him ! Does not this
savour of a desire " to assume a virtue if you have it not ?"
Even your zeal, as a warden of the temporalities of the
church, and your evident anxiety to have its spiritual govern-
gumption.
ment committed to your care, can hardly excuse your pre-

he dcclar

lin take the liberty
"hick •

ye less

,ectfully

a castigation

Having now answered your note, permit me, in conclusion,
to say that in appealing to you, and I may add to Christians
of every denomination in the town, we did so in the hope
that seeing the position in which our poor children had been
placed by the recent decision of the Town Council, men
would forget the bitterness of religious animosity, and yield-
ing to the better and more noble feelings of their natu're,
would say to us in charity and kindness " Though we pity
the ignorance and deplore the delusion under which you are
labouring, yet as you are actuated by a sincere desire to
save from vice and immorality the children of your faith, we
will forget the difference of creed, and as friends of education
aid you in instructing the ignorant."
" We regret if we have failed to raise these sentiments in
your head, but with the settled conviction of the righteous-
ness of our cause, we will persevere in our appeal to the jus-
tice and sympathies of the public.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"JAMES WILKINSON.

" St. Mary's, Edmund-street,
" Liverpool, 9th January, 1843.
" William Birkett, Esq., Churchwarden, Scc
* This word is spelled " journels " In the original, but we
pose it to have been a mere tapsus pennce.

MR. HAMMOND AND THE MINOR rHEATRI

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—In reading the Liverpool Albion of this day, I
noticed a
_letter signed " Fair Play," in which the con-

sistency of the p,roirietors of the Theatre Royal ii
is questioned in protecting the patent rights of tha
ment. In consequence of my being the present 1
theatre, and heretofore opposed to the proprieti
partner with Mr. Raymond in the management o

Theatre, I reluctantly give publicity to a correspon,
that gentleman on this subject; but I have the less th.—
tion in the matter as Mr. Raymond has ceased to be th,
manager of the Liver Theatre, and, consequently, his in-
terest cannot be affected by the course I now adopt. In
justice, therefore, to myself, and in deference to the propri-
etors of the Theatre Royal, whose kindness and liberality to
me I take this method publicly to acknowledge, I will as
briefly as possible state facts, from which it -will appear,
however the management of the Liver Theatre might have
been rendered liable to penalties by infractions of the patent
rights of the Theatre Royal during the period in which I was
connected with it, I was not a willing party to proceedings
which, being but a partner with Mr. Raymond, I had not
the power to prevent. Some time ago I was strenuously
urged, in a letter from Mr. Raymond, to be guided by the
advice of a professional gentleman in this matter; and I
refer you to that portion of the letter which bears upon the
point in question, which is to the following effect :

lee with

" Liverpool, 25th Nov., 1833.
"By —'s advice I write a few lines. Holloway was to
have opened last night, but has received a notice from the
proprietors, saying they would prosecute if he did : he now
does not open till we do. thinks it probable we may
be served with a notice, (which, in my opinion, as well as
his, will do no harm,) but recommends us to be prepared
against the worst. The following is his advice.
" In case of information remove it to the King's Bench :
we are sure to lose as the law stands, unless they make some
flaw : if they succeed they issue execution."
This part of the letter is followed by a recommendation to
give a warrant of
to proceed with the season. attorney, and to use every effort to gain time,
With the recollection that, a short time previous to the
date of this letter, Mr. Raymond and myself, as managers of
the Liver Theatre, had been fined and paid the sum of fifty
pounds for a violation of the law at that establishment, I made
the following reply :

_
" " Sheffield, 27th Nov., 1833.
As regards the notice to Holloway, for my own part I
think the proprietors are perfectly right ; it is not to be sup-
posed that they would suffer any place of amusement to be
opened during the regular season of the Theatre Royal.
With respect to the warrant of attorney, I do most decidedly
object to it. If the proprietors are determined to prevent
the opening of any other theatrical establishment in Liver-
pool, all the quirks and trickeries of the law cannot excuse
us. and inevitable ruin must be the consequence ; but let us
meet our fate fearlessly and honestly. My opinion is, that
the proprietors will not interfere after the royal house is
closed, provided we do not act the legitimate dramas. If they
do, we are only in the same situation We have always been,
and must battle it out in the best way possible,
I shall refrain from all comment upon this correspondence, and
only say the letter of Mr. Raymond and my answer are
in my possession, and open to the inspection of any person
who may be desirous to peruse them. Your insertion of the
above in the STANDARD of to-nnorrow will oblige, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
W. J. HAMMOND.

Theatre Royal, Liverpool,
Jan. 16, 1842.

THE HALIFAX MAIL STEAM SHIP " BBITTENNIA.—
Our old friend and townsman, Captain Hewitt, commander
of this North American Steamer, continues to earn " golden"
or rather " silver" opinions for all sorts of men with whom
be traverses the stormy Atlantic. e find be Boston
Mirror of the 24th December that the vessel hay dth on her last
outward voyage experienced very boisterous weather almost
throughout, and had also encountered some heavy gales,
dome suring
li w
ht hich the sea broke over the ship, and she received
s damage in her light wood-work above, hot not,-
ing to impede her prop rss. Thc passengers represented the
conduct of Captain Hewitt, his officer des crew, as of the most skilful and gallant character, androus of expressir:s
their obligations to Captain Hewitt had (on the I9th t Decamber on board the ship) presented him with a handsome
Silver Tea-service, accompanied by the following address :
Captain John Hewitt,
Dear Sir—ln behalf of all the passengers on board
Steamship Britannia, we solicit your acceptance
of theh
p.ac-
companying testimonial of their esteem and friend
The unceasing exei eton and ability you displayedoirdao :
utiri'g?
the
continuance of a gale of unusual severity
hmaaznadrdf.r particularly,o m sassoymoueraaccktnivoiwtylepdlgaecmedenyot
uofinotld imminentradtuitipee:rsmoonraie

ouWr seenrseeq
s
unefstthteh that youm i
and rmne
w d their duties; rabwleillmcaonnnveery tino your officers and crew
and trusting that that Providence which
hasfo
brought our perilous voyage "to.haiciClotshee,ywiilalvewaptecrh-
over you in all similar dangers, and bestow on you all health
prosperity.o
NY
e are, dear sir, faithfully yours,
,c,
Igned by five gentlemen on behalf of the passengers.
With reference to the personal danger alluded to—to which
Captain Hewitt was exposed, we find some interesting facts
in a letter from one of the passengers, dublished in the N
12ewth
York Journal of Commerce. It endears that on the
December, while the ship was in longitude 38' she en. -
tered a tremendous gale of wind from the NW.
at 6 in tti,
• going easy under close-reefed storm sails, when,
morning, she shipped a sea' which struck her on the larboard
side, before the paddle box, and completely filled the deck,
Captain Hewitt was, at the time, standing on the grating abaft
' at the wheel giving directions to the steersman, and the third
officer was standing near him. The captain was lifted from
his feet, and when he recovered from the immersion in the
huge wave that appeared to overwhelm the veboom, ssel, he found
himself entangled on the guy of the spanker outside
the saffrail. He instantly took advantage of that slend.r
stay and the small iron rail on the top of the taffrail, anti
held on untilhe could draw himself on board, on the sea sub-
ffa
but
tun! itue
shout
thet
ba tehe
hull
In:
la
never
ea
vr
ek
rs
sidin. The third officer had also a narrow escape, ayonnd:tshee.
veral of the crew were injured--one of theßmrintinrntaiall
ship, however, suddenly recovered herself, thsrreaoliuvlgwehsa the force
yaa
s.n
and f Thi nil-
of her engines and her own buoyancy, and rising,
railway,
in
fovrrnoaemse,
andsei grmndai
genchtktl ysb. frome cso:jet
cheteend assault,
catbrer
ilei
gds
hh
tao
gowe
aka
yro,
complained, and not a screw of the machinery was strained.
We may add that such was the force of the sea That broke
three
boardee
sisterof
shipsher, thathav et heb
certainlyra ss bapl lruosvt.
proved
add
themselves
oomr
top of the saloon was carried away. The
the most peeilous voyages during the
admirable sea-boats.—Captain H • winter) fast sailersmitt and
overtaken by the recent hurricane states that. he was
o this locality on Thursday whielrafte I was
last rivart.q passed
guns. All, however, was right— , and then it blew'
waves." for " Mita great
nnia rides' the

She was

The large sums in specie rec
amer, and other conveyance, fo

by the B

former

exchange and cotton, have not affected the market as to the
The latter was started somewhat by the general
given to prices in England by the China and India

sued represents his excel]

A with

to be in a very low state

ASSENGERS BY THE

course N

arrived in t

distant

ld hazy,

T.
M. Caw,
ie, and Mr.

confirm,
umstanc

I announcing his belief that

Montr(

30th of Del

In my opinion

experience befc

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reached a d

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ut the a

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r instant

eseription
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o Mr. (

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CORN LAWS AND T 1

ounts from Kingston seem contradictory as to the (From an Anti-Corn-Lai
Charles Bagot's health. The latest bulletin We beg particular attention to the f(

just reached us, written by NI

I the government in the existing corn la
Extract of a letter from Mr. Lindsay
3ladstone,

ported a

re they enter seriously on t
nt reduction of z

the large bone of the right leg had I-,

s though it

w print.)

)Wing letter, wh'

Gladstone, of Fasql

a is cont

emplated

Dundee Uni

of Fasque, dated tl

Id, 1 be

le Importers

point of numt

most quarters, a great deficiency in the food of cattle, which
again caused increased cumbers to be brought to market,
which had a natural, but I trust only a temporary, effect,
acting in connexion with the causes which have depressed the
corn markets.

sideration

se and recommend to t
payment whilst depressio_
and, on the other hand, let me exhort all farmers who stud
their own interest to devote their attention to improve their
cultivation, by strict attention to rotation of crops, by adopt-
ing the use of the subsoil plough, and extending their thorough
drainage, which, with the use of bone-dust for their green
crops, will cause, I am persuaded, an increase of production
likely to exceed even their most sanguine expectations ; and
with increased protection afforded by these means against the
seasons, it will enable them, in benefitting themselves, to
give employment to many of the labouring poor,_of which
they at present stand much in need.

s under existing leases ;
na forbear-

n contir.

In thus answering your letter, I have been drawn to do
so, as I proceeded, at much greater length than I had in-
tended ; but having done so, and thinking what I have said
may perhaps have some weight with others who think as you
do, I shall send a copy of what I have said, and also one of
yours, to Mr. Taylor, that he may, if he thinks proper, in-
sert them in the next Montrose Standard.
" I am, dear Sir, •
" Your faithful and obedient servant,
" JOHN GLADSTONE.
" To A. Lindsay, Esq., Union Bank, Montrose."

On the 9th instant a woman, of the name of Goulding, at
Salford, cut her throat with a common dinner knife, in con-
sequence of great privations, arising from her husband's neg-
lect and desertion.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH MIDLAND RAIL-
WAY.—We record with regret that a collision took place on
the North Midland Railway, near the Barnsley Station,
which has resulted in the loss of one human life. It appears
that the first morning passenger train from Leeds arrived at
the Barnsley station a little after seven o'clock, and whilst
the usual changes of passengers and laggage was taking
place, a ponderous luggage train of considerable length ar-
rived from Leeds and ran into the passenger train. The
crash was terrific, and the whole of the carriages of the
standing train were broken to pieces, viz., 4 first class, 2
second, and and 1 third. A gentleman who was in a second
class carriage was killed, one-half of his head being corn-
rletely taken off, and his body hurled a considerable distance.
The name of the unfortunate gentleman was Mr. M. Cutler,
at least such was the name written in his hat, and we have
learnt that he travelled for the respectable firm of Messrs.
Tinley and McCleve, of Glasgow, in the lace trade. The
stoker had a finger taken off. Fortunately there were no
other passengers in the carriages at the time the accident
occurred. Another commercial gentleman happily had just
got out and was walking along side of the train. The da-
mage done to the luggage waggons and

put off from U

not so

greatas might have been expected ; however, the loss upon
the whole must be very serious to the company—

not less

PARENTAL NEGLECT.—Oa Thursday last, an inquest was
Geld at Wribben-hall, near Worcester, on view of the infant
3aughter of William and 'Mary Cooke, both of whom, it
Ippeared, were labouring under insanity. The surgeon de-
msed that the child died ultimately from disease of the lungs :

n broken

id united again of
e. The bones of

aps, w

up for ti

vessel struck

longer

hip We have to add to the total loss of the Pladda, hence to
,ph Glasson-dock, on the coast of Donegal. Her cargo was
he 1,091 barrels of wheat, 431 barrels of oats, and 294 barrels of
al- beans, F. Spaight ; and what will be learned with much re-
Id, Bret is the loss of the Lansdowne, a- new and handsome
st, model of a schooner, built at Mr. Russell's Patent Slip, in
this port, and returning from Liverpool, when driven on the
Scottish coast, where she went to pieces. Several pieces of
timber were seen off the Kilkee coast in the last week, but
the weather was so boisterous it could not be ascertained if
they constituted part of a wreck.—Limerick Chronicle.

,ch SLIGO.
2e, The schooner Tampico, Gregg, of Workington, laden with
by with wheat. oats, and beans, from Limerick, and bound for
Glassondock, after having been on her beam ends, and lost
binnacle, with compasses, &c., was running for this harbour
on the night of the sth instant, in a thick shower, struck on
Harbowling, near Roughley Point, and became a total wreck.
The master and two of the crew were saved by a boat which
Roughley pilot station. Four of the sailors
were drowned. Two of the bodies were washed ashore at
Roughley, and an inquest, held by Alexander Burrows, Esq.,
evidence was given :—Thomas

_ being duly sworn, saith. that he was
foremast man on board the schooner Tampico, bound from
Limerick to Glassondock, from which port (Tarbet Roads)
he sailed in said vessel, on Tuesday, the 2d January instant,
with a cargo of wheat, oats, and beans, and that on the
second day after leaving Tarbet Roads the vessel sustained
damage in a gale, which obliged the captain to bear
' harbour of Sligo, near which, off Roughley, the
at about 10 Dan.. on the sth instant, in a
bowl'

oring rock, upon which she remained for
4 went to pieces; three of the crew, consisting
sons, namely, the captain, William Gregg, the
~ed Thomas Curry, and Charles Jay, having been
the remaining four, namely, William Cohne, the
, Simon Flanagan, James Curry, and James Walker,
were washed off the wreck and drowned ; the deceased, Simon
Flanagan, was washed overboard about 5 o'clock a.m., on
the 6th ; the remaining three, namely, William Gregg,
Thomas Curry, and Charles Jay, having been rescued by
Thomas Carway and his crew in a boat. He states further,
that they were so exhausted by fatigue and exposure to cold
nd wet, that they could not possibly have survived much
. Charles Jay sworn—ls one of the survivors who
was'on board of the Tampico schooner, and corroborates the
above statement.—Sligo Journal.