The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-27 00:00:00

THE LOSS OF THE LILY

We have given in another column a brief announcement
of the loss of this vessel, which belonged to Mr. Maxwell of
this town. The following additional particulars we take from
a letter written by one of the chief officers to a firm interested

,e ship's cargo
"It is with deep regret-that I have to announce to you the
:ass of the Lily, which took place in the Bristol Chan-
on the 13th instant, and frateful are we to the Almighty
it the preservation of our lives. We had a dreadful time
I it, and were surprised that she weathered the storm as
she did, for every soul on board fully expecied she would go
to the bottom long before sha struck on the Taunton Sands.
Two days after leaving Liverpool (on the 4th instant) a gale
sprung up from the south-west, which lasted several days,
at times varying in points, first driving the ship down the
channel and then up. This, however, she stood nobly, but
on the 10th the gale greatly incaeased, which drove us down
as far as Padstow, and afterwards back again close to Mil-
fordhaven, where we endeavoured to run for shelter, but
after three attempts were obliged to heave to and run out
to sea. On the morning of the 13th we experienced a terri-
., Never shall I forget it. It broke forth shortly
three o'clock, accompanied by vivid flashes of light-
ning and heavy thunder, and for four hours snow, hail, and
rain fell in torrents. All hands were upon deck, lashed to
the rigging, and the ship became utterly unmanageable ; at
times she was buried completely under water. In this state
the ship continued the whole of that day, Friday night, and
part of the following day, when she happily drove on shore
the place above mentioned. Before 3 we had discovered
t of water in her hold, and that her rudder was gone.
was on Friday night, when we took to the pumps, and
1 them until they became useless. The hurricane had
n abated, and the sea was making a clear swee-

ic storll

and aft

carrying away with it spars

part of the

5 o'clock
part of the
before daybreak the following morning she went

bulwarks, boats, &c

ship struck, soon afte

ad on a most da

gerous

on Saturda

.ernoon,

to pieces.'
About two hours after she struck, a vessel called the Apple-
dare. Mr. Williams master, came alongside, and, by means
oat, took the crew off in safety. They were after-
mveyed to the lighthouse, where every comfort and
kindness was shown to them. We regret to add, that, some
time before the vessel came ashore, a portion of the crew
had forcibly broken into the store-room, and drank to such
excess of spirits that some were lying about the deck in a
shocking state of madness, and would have perished but for
the humanity of their messmates, who secured them to the
- sea washing them overboard ; and

ng to pri

mained until assistance arrived alongside of the
----,.tPfl of 23 men, besides Captain

crew cut—
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i *e first and second mates

the wreck being observed by

stationed along

rong body of men wem
iy part of the cargo that should be washed

ming,
_as the tide rose, the b

up on the sands, where she soon broke
alf, and her cargo floated out, and was washed upon the

threw the ship hig

THE ASSASSIN.—LittIe doubt is entertained, we believe,
that the blow which fell upon the subordinate was intended
for his principal. During the madness of the late,servile war
in the manufacturing districts, it was boldly and frequently
asserted—and repeated in the columns of the anti-corn-law
—that three hundred patriots had bound themselves
,er by an oath to put Sir Robert Peel to death. The
Al attempt—in which the mistake of the secretary for the
prime minister seems to have saved the latter from personal
injury—may have been the first fruits of that conspiracy.
The history of Rome furnishes us with a very remarkable
coincidence. We are told by Livy that when Porsenna en-
camped his invading forces along the Tiber, and the city was
pressed with famine, Mutius Scnvola conceived the design
of delivering his country. Passing secretly into the enemy's
camp, he reached the treasury, where Porsenna, in the midst
of a crowd, and assisted by his secretary, was issuing pay to
his troops. It chanced that a similarity of dress rendered
their persons less distinguishable—and Scxvola, fearful to
excite suspicion by minute inquiry, struck his weapon into
the secretary, whom he mistook for the monarch. Endea-
vouring to escape, he was seized, examined, and at length
revealed that he was one of three hundred youths who had
sworn the death of the invader ; the lot, he said, had first
fallen upon him, but each was to take his turn. Thus are
the words of the wisest of men verified—" There is nothing
new under the sun ; the thing that has been is the thing that
shall be.”—Dublin Evening Mail.
A SCENE IN Low LIFE.—SUICIDE THROUGH AFFEC-
TION FOR AN IMPRISONED THIEF.—An inquest was held
on Wednesday before Mr. Payne, the coroner, at St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, on the body of Emma Ranger, aged 21.
By the evidence of 11 witnesses, it was proved that about two

years ago the deceased married a respectable man. a chair-
maker, but though their circumstances were good, her violent
temper and growing depravity deprived them both of that
domestic comfort they were led to suppose would follow the
wedding. Six months ago. when the husband, Alfred Ranger,
returning frown work, expecting to find his tea prepared for
him, he discovered that his wife, the deceased, had left home,
and, with the assistance of an abandoned associate, removed
to some place, where she alone could have the use of it, every
article of furniture. The next he heard of her was that she
kept company with women of the lowest character, and lived
in a state of adultery with a notorious thief, now in custody
on a charge of stealing a quantity of linen. Upon that charge
he was apprehended about a week ago, and deceased, in her
anxiety to get him liberated, for the witnesses said she was
passionately fond of him, went round to all her friends,
acquaintances, and relations, including her mother, to en-
deavour to raise money for his defence by raffling some of her
clothes. Having by that means provided a sufficient sum to
employ a solicitor, and having been assured by him that he
should be able to bring bun off, she was heard to exclaim,
" 0 ! if he does but bring him off I could kiss his feet," and
felt confident that she should soon again have the company
of her paramour. Contrary to her expectations he was re-
manded, and when, at two o'clock on Monday last, at Wor-
ship-street Police-court, she teamed that he was to be con-
fined still longer, she raved like a maniac, saying, " Oh, my
dear Jack ! Oh, i shall never see you again i" As the prison
was driven off she cried bitterly, van and during the rest of
the day was heard lamenting the fate of the prisoner (a man
named Dickenson). At four- o'clock in the afternoon she
purchased a pennyworth of oxalic acid, saying that she wanted
it for the
purpose of cleaning straw, and at six o'clock swal-
lowed it in the house of an acquaintance in New Inn-yard,
Shoreditch. Chalk and water were administered as an anti-
dote to the poison, though much against her will. for she said
her reason for attempting suicide was that she was tired of
her life ' • and in twonlinutes after her admission to the above
hospital
she died. The witnesses who knew the deceased
could give no other reason for the rash deed than that of her
blighted hopes of Dickenson s liberation. The jury took the
.Arne view of the case, and returned a verdict of " Temporary

insanity.'AMEßlCAN CURIOSITY REGARDING QUEEN VICTORIA.
—The idea of a female governing a great nation seemed to
them to lift the whole sex, in every other country, somewhat
higher in the scale of importance, and to give to every wo
man in every land a right to considerd
it as
that she never a sort of hom
I!!
a -
paid to the entire sex. One lady
tol us
membered to have felt so intense an interest in any
subject
as that of the accession, coronation, and marriage of Queen
Victoria ; that she had so literally devoured age
of
news-
paper details of the processions, ceremonies, dresses, and
paraphernalia of these three occasions, and could read them
all again with increased delight. Another said she had
dreamt of Queen Victoria, and of being introduced to her
oftener than any other subject, and that she would " - •
the world to be able to see her, and speak to her in re
When they understood that Mrs. Buckingham and my son
ad each seen the Queen, both before and since
iher accesut when,
overwhelmed them with inquires; b
n that I was present, as a member of the House
-a not far from her Majesty's person when

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