The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-25 00:00:00

THE LATE SHIPWRECKS.

WRECK OP THE ST. DAVID.-1n the Stondard of the 154
instant, we gave an acconnt of the wrack of the barque St.
David, from Quebec, bound for Plymouth. For the last fort-
night., six of the men who were rescued from destruction Ly the
Christiana, have been receiving medical attendance at the,
Infirmary. One poor fellow, we regret to say, will lose both his.
legs, another, three toes from the left toot, and tWo more wilt
remain lame for some time to come. We understand the clew
cannot recover any part of their pay from the owners of the
vessel, she being merely loaded with ballast at the time of the
disaster. We, therefore, trust the well-known generosity of
ship-owners and merchants of Liverpool will not allow these
unfortunate men to leave the town in a stale of destitution.

WRECK OF THE BRITANNIA.—Five of the crew who were
brought to our Infirmary on Sunday-week in a pitiable state of.
suffering from the wreck of this vessel, have received the tin:-
wearied attention of the officers of that institution. One of thq
crew, a Frenchman, will suffer the loss of hotk his legs, .ant
pert of one of his hands, another, the whole ofitis toes from.
both feet, and a third, three toes from one Foot. The two re-.
maining men are doing well. The privations and sufferings of
these poor men were of the most dreadful nature. For the lad
four days before they were picked up by the Rialto, as men-
tioned in our paper of the 15th instant, they supported existencsi
by feeding upon the entrails of out of the crew who had died
frail cold nd tinnier.

CHARITY SERMON AT ST. PETER's.—His worship the mayor
has signified his intention of proceeding in state from the ToWn:
hall to St. Peter's Church, on Sunday morning, on which occa:
sion the service will be read by the Rev. Augustus Campbell,
and a sermon willhe preached by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks,
the senior rector of Liverpool. After the service there will be

a collection at the church doors in aid of the funds of the Blue
Coat Hospital, of which institution the mayor is the treasurer
As this will be the lltst appearance in public of 101 r. Aspinall
as mayor of Liverpool, indeed almost tho last act,of his official
life, we would suggest to all the respectable inhabitants of the
town the propriety:of being in attendance to accompany hia
worship to and from the church. This would at once he the

most delicate, and at the same time the most appropriate way

of mai king the sense entertained of the valuable services of
our chief to the hospital, for whose benefit the col-
lection will be made, as well as to the otheripublic institutions
of the town, and of his ability, zeal, industry, and humadhy in
tire discharge of his magisterial duties. '
DEsr aTeri.—Thea Brit ish.. ship Enchantress. of, thisjaart,
Captain Black, arrived, here last. Friday from Charlesioradir.
charged a large eargo of cotton, has reloaded, and sails this-
day for Savannah, hating been only seven days. in. We port;
beteg an instance of almost unprecedented despatch.
"CRUTCHING" IT.-- On Tueaday, at the Dock Po:iee-ofQ.ce,
two old cripples, apparently beggars, leach kfaanished tdith
crutches, were brought up byg the watch before Mr. Alderanatt
Sandbrich, charged with being drunk and disorderly, earrefe
ring in a public-house, and fighting. ." What are you ?" said
the magistrate to one of them, a lusty, big fellow,favith one eye
completely • bunged up.' as the watch said, by a blow from the
other's crutch.—" I'm a sailor, yer ltenour-1 belong,toLiver-
pool, and lost my leg abodrd a Liverpool ship.r,Got woili/d tip
rather too taught with a sup a grog teat uight, yer honotra;
hope you'll forgive us this tinie."— Magistrate. " How do you
get your living ?"—By selling braces, yer honour."--Magis-
trate, (addressiug the other,) " Well; and what have you to say
for yourself?"—"l don't know mold& about this man at
all, ver honour; I never saw 'ins before in my life, barrio' last
night, whin I stumbled on 'im quite concidentally in a public-
hotte ; an' I'll tell yer honour how it was, all about it. As we
waselemin' bout of the public-house this big spalpeen, bad luck •
to 'im, tumbled agin' me and' bhroke the crutch, and I fell
down; an', to make it avin, whin I got up agin I knocked 'ins
down wid the other half of it, air' rather bothered ' Put
that in your pocket, a rick inachree.' aays. Whisper, a
bonchal,' says he; an' up he gets all 'in qnensequence, an'
ludleers Me. That's all about it, yet' honour."—Magistrate.
"Where are you froma-whefa do you Wong. to?" "It's 28
years I bin in South America, air' I wait there frint.Collamore,,
in Ireland, yer hononr."—Mtigistrate. " How do you get your
living? do you beg ?"—" Beg! Ganini ! is it beg gin' ye ;ay?
No, yer honour, it isn't 'Leggin' I'm abhor. I sells laces an'
ribbius, and gets a honest livelyhood.".—Magistrate. "'Welt,
have you settled your quarrel ? will you keep the peace to mar
another if 1 let you go ?"—Prisoners. Wo have, yer honour ;
and 'thank ye." The two then hobbled out of court to cement
their new friendship and acquaintance at the first tap.
EVADING THE Dom( Duas.—On Wednesday, at the. Dock-:
police office, before Mr. Alderman Sanclhaeha George Owen,
• master of a vessel called the Unity, Was fined £5 for evading-
the dock dues on '24 sacks of beans. The vessel was loaded'
in bulk, with the exception of the twenty-four sacks of which'
he did not make any entry for the purpose of evading the dock
duties. There was also another infoimation against him to
evading the duty on eight sacks of retches, for which he was alai
fined £5.
lisroittravioNa.—On Wednesday last, ThiorniA Thainev. the
driver of car, No. 92, was brought before Alderliatu Sir t..i.eorge
Drinkwater, and fined lite costs, for demanding
more than the legal fare.' Adarti Eg,giusau, butcher, was in-
formed against by Holden, the market•inspector, for exposing
fur sale on gaturdai teat, 15011 is. of meat, unfit fur the use of
man. was stated to be his second offence. Ile was fiutak
ten shillings and costs. \Via. Erchell's driver, of near Chat
Moss,- was fin- d five shillings, and four shillings and sixpence
costs for cal tiug night soil, on Wednesday las., between eight and
nine o'clock iu the morning, that Lieiva+. later than the hour
allowed.
'lnc•i FOG. —Owing to the density' of the fog on .Weduesday.
evening, the letter bags sent from oar postotlice, at Nix o'clock,
to be taken from. thence by the Ilotyheail and Bristol mails
were not landed on the other sideof the river until eight o'clock
at night; It being low water, the passage boat got aground
in Vt ailasey Pool, aria the -guards, together with the. captain
of the boat., and the coach passengers were obliged to take the
small boat laud make the best of their way to the shore. The •
pe. • rson who arrived at Woodside by the London. and Chelten'
ham coaches, on Wednesday evening were unable to cross the
rivertill yesterday morning.
FAILURE. AT BUENOS Ataaaa--The house of Messrs. Sebas-
tian Lezica and Brothers, in Buenos Ayres, leas failed, in con-.
sequence of a oiscovery that fargeries of weal- billet() an immense
amount had been committed by the person is ho had the manage-
ment of its atiaira, and which • he most have carried on for a
considerable time. It is presumed that the aniutint of his for-
geries' will reach 1,51A),00t1 dollars currency, and that the failure
will exceed 3,000,U0) dollars, trio-thirds of rattich will tall upon'
the merchants, private inditidtatls, surd fanatics of that Lay;
het principally open itte natives: The atatlier of,this ralamicl
has fled; his name is F. If ortiina, a Ilaneverian.
was completely at a stand still. Exclumge on England, quoted
nominally, fit per dollar; per cella; 60 per cent. irouilualaa-
Meaning Herald.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AND Nkit• YEAU'S Gleas.----All the
juvenile part of the cantata:luny are leokieg forward with Wears.-
beating expectation of the pleasures which they are-to Cain). at
at the approacbing period of festivity. Preaents pour iii upon
the happy pai ties hem Ivlatives and iliends—mirth is tiVe toiler
of the day! and delightfUl hilarity pervades every parental Alan-
' siou. It mday be requisite to reinur k,• that parents etieact make
ioore applopriate mamas than RoWI.ANO'S Mscss.ssnOtLfor
the Bair, ItirtVLA N sKa LS forthc Pace iota akin, aid their
much admired ODoN TO, or PEAL;L I)l..NTti 11, Jur the Teeth,
which infallibly tend to the augineutatimi of that imeemin:
exterior, and which Lord Chesterfield itially obsurvt •• a caul'
of reauelarrendatiou.—See adrt.
The following uflicial communication has been reccited
Lloyd's:—
Admiralty, De0.,11,
Sttr,—l am commanded-. by my Lordi Comibisbionris oh the
Admiralty to acquaint you, Ito* the infoimatiuu of the Caw_
nattee fur the nristragieg toe affair of Lloyd's that any Lards
have been inkonitcl iltat Ike ship Baltic, Irvin Quebeta• after
suffering in a heavy gale en the !cid of last saourti, wee at acniy
on the 11th *rib only 'hB gallons of eater air beard: and
that other vessels from Notch America alight alambe expected
to be at no great distance from the kept eut by
the easterly winds ;• their. Lordatripp hattf givetter dere tor *curia
iug out two vessels, with as niticll wafer and previsions as tan
be conveniently put on board, to' Its!, Mie' of those 1'
am, Sir, your inost obedient &risible grant,
" W. Dobson, Esq., Secattaly of Lloyd's."

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