The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-20 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS

ae pit. After she had left the spot he examined the pit,
,d found the, dead bodies. Happily the crime of child Inur-
Aer is rare in Wales, and in this instance the perpetrators
only under- have for some time past borne very questionable characters.
cod his case, but could suit his grace to it. He begged The elder prisoner is in custody, but as yet she is too ill to
tat I would forgive him. I told him I did most sin- be removed to the gaol.—The Welshman.

DESPERATE ASSAULT.—On Tuesday evening the turn-
key of Kirkaldy gaol entered a cell in which were confined
two prisoners—one for sheepstealing and another for some
other theft—for the purpose of giving them supper. As is
usual, he locked the door, and instantly one of them seized
him by the throat and bore him backwards. Recovering
himself, he struck the fellow a blow on the head with the
key which knocked him senseless on the floor. Immediately
the other prisoner seized him in the same manner. • A severe
struggle ensued, when the noise the combatants made reach-
ing the gaoler, he came running to the door, and the turn-
key having got his knee upon his opponent's breast, while he
held him down by the throat with his left hand, opened the
door with the other and admitted the gaoler. The prisoners
were then secured and laid in irons. There can be no doubt
that the object they had in view was to effect their escape,
and certainly the turnkey deserves great praise for the in-
trepid manner in which he resisted them.—Caledonian Mer-
cury.

DESPERATE AFFRAY Wllll POACHERS.—On Friday
night, the Gth instant, the butler of Sir Benj. Hall, Bart.,
hearing the report of a gun in the preserves, summoned the
keepers and assistants, and went in pursuit of the parties.
On arriving within a field or two of the place whence the
sound was heard, they met two men on the turnpike-road,
whom they accused of having been shooting. On attempting
to take them into custody a fearful conflict took place, the
men using the butts of their guns, knocking about them
right and left. The head keeper and an assistant were both
knocked down and much bruised. One of the men made
his escape, and the other, Joseph Bailey, was eventually
captured, after resisting until he had been repeatedly knocked
down. The prisoner was examined before Mr. E. H. Phil-
lips and the Rev. Dr. Jones, but, being too much injured
to be brought to the station-house, the magistrates kindly
went to the White Lion, Pontypool, where the prisoner was
in bed, and, after hearing the evidence, fully committed him
to Monmouth gaol to take his trial for a misdemeanour.
The prisoner gave his name " Joseph Bailey," but he is also
known as " Joseph Jones." He is a powerful man, and
evidently possesses considerable courage.—MonmouthMer-
lin.

MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.— Edward
Jones, of Knockroghery, had been out on some night last
week, and when he came home he found his wife in bed.
He called her, and though awake, she did not answer him, as
she saw a hatchet in his hand, and they had not been for
some days before on good terms. When she did not answer
he struck her with the hatchet on the arm, which he broke ;
gave her another blow on the head, and fractured her skull,
and a third on the shoulder, with the sharp part of the
hatchet, and cut through the shoulder blade. He then went
to the police barrack, and gave himself up to the guard,
whom he told he was after killing his wife. There was no
man in the barrack at the time but the guard, and, after
staying a short time, he thought to get away—whether it was
he got sorry for having given himself up, or that he wanted,
as he alleged, to kill her outright, as he did not think he
finished her.• The policeman would not permit him to de-
part, a scuffle ensued, but the policeman, after a severe
struggle, succeeded in retaining him. He was next morning
brought before a magistrate, who committed him to Ros-
common jail. The poor woman lingered till yesterday, when
she died in great torture. Jealousy is said to be the cause
which urged Jones to commit this fearful crime. A verdict
of wilful murder has been returned against the wretched man,
who has been committed for trial. He had a property of
£lOO per year in the town of Galway.—Athlone Sentinel.

MURDER OF Two INFANTS.—APPREHENSION OF THE
MURDERESS.—A young woman of the name of Margaret
Hughes, aged about 20, has been committed to our county
gaol for trial at the.assizes, charged with being accessory to
the wilful murder of her mother's twin illegitimate children
in the parish of Llauon. The mother is a widow named
Margaret Hughes, and is about 46 years of age. and has re-
cently been delivered of two unfortunate babes, for the mur-
der of whom she is now, with her daughter, in custody.
The father of the children is supposed to be a respectable
farmer iu the neighbourhood, a married man, having a
family, and f •

horrid deed was perpetrated by throwing the
infants into a deep pit, in which place they were found quite
dead. Suspicion attaching to both prisoners, a surgeon ex-
iriained the bodies, and declared that they were born alive,
knd were fine healthy children. The parties were therefore
tharged before the magistrates, and committed to. take their
vial for wilful murder. The bodies were discoiered by a
abouring man who was hedging near the pit, and whose
uspicions were excited by the extreme anxiety which the

.ctes were equal to all his wants. He I tl
from the Prayerbook, and asked I a

gain if I thought his repentance would be accepted, saying d
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iat his time was

Her Majesty's brig Express, Lieut. Herrick, commander,
reached Falmouth on Sunday night with mails from the Bra-
zils, after having encountered the full violence of the hurricane
on Thursday and Friday last. It is described as having been

most awful.
The Express left Rio de Janeiro on the 27th of November,
and has come home direct, having on freight gold and other
treasure valued at £40,000. The arrival at Rio of the Right
Hon. Henry Ellis, by the Salamander steam-frigate, on a
special mission to the Emperor upon his marriage, had caused
a good deal of speculation in the mercantile circles as to what
concessions it was contemplated to make to induce the Bra-
zils to conclude a treaty with us.
The presentation of the right hon. gentleman took place on
the 19th, when his Excellency was received with the honours
paid to an ambassador.
His Excellency addressed His Imperial Majesty, in French,
to the fallowing effect :
" Sire,—The Most urgent duty with which I am intrusted,
and that which I conceive to be the most important, is to ex-
press, in language befitting the occasion, the unvarying sen-
timents of friendship and esteem which animate my august
Sovereign towards your Imperial Majesty. My royal mis-
tress continues to entertain the most sincerc wishes for the
happiness of your Imperial Majesty, and for the prosperity
of the empire of Brazil. Actuated by these sentiments, my
august Sovereign has deigned to honour me with an extra-
ordinary and a special mission to your Imperial Majesty, and
I have the honour to present my credentials to your Imperial
Majesty.
" I venture to hope that your Imperial Majesty will find in
this mission an additional and a most powerful assurance of
the friendship of my royal mistress, and a proof of the im-
portance which she attaches to the maintenance of those
friendly and reciprocally advantageous relations which have
for so many years subsisted between the two countries.
" I am further intrusted by my royal mistress with a letter
of congratulation to your imperial Majesty upon the occasion
of the marriage which your Imperial Majesty has recently
contracted with her Royal Highness the Princess Theresa of
Sicily, and I venture to solicit your Imperial Majesty to grant
me a private audience, that I may have the honour of pre-
senting the letter from my royal mistress. __ _ . .

THE LATE HURRICAM

DREADPUL LOSS OP LIFT

(From Monday'B London Standard.)

By the kindness of Captain King, of the General Steam
Navigation Company's packet Harlequin, which arrived
from Boulogne late last night, we are in receipt of the fol-
lowing- melancholy intelligence :—The ship Conqueror, of
800 tons, from Calcutta, Captain Gibbon, got stranded near
Etaples, about ten o'clock on Friday, and during the night
she went to pieces; captain, crew, and passengers (said to
be 69), all perished, with the exception of one midshipman.
Near the same place, and at the same time, a Swedish
ship was wrecked, and all hands drowned.
Also an English fruit-vessel (name not known) was lost
near Boulogne ; all perished.
Also a schooner, from Wisbeach to Dieppe, loaded with
linseed and oats ; ship a total wreck ; crew saved.

FURTHER PARTICULARS

The Conqueror, a fine vessel of 600 tons, belonging to Mr.
Richard Green, of the firm of Wigram and Green, bound
from Calcutta to London, and commanded by Capt. Duggan,
after beating about in the channel during the heavy gale on
Friday night, was driven on shore, off Lorel, a small town
on the French coast, only six miles distant from Mirlemont
(where the Reliance struck), at about half-past ten o'clock
p.m., and almost immediately went to pieces, every soul on
board being. lost, with the exception of a boy named Henry
Abchurch, one of the cuddy servants. The crew consisted
of about 45 seamen, exclusive of officers, and the vessel had
no less than 18 passengers on board, including Mrs. Thomp-
son (the wife of an East India captain), and Mrs. Jenkins,
both of whom were accompanied by a family of four children,
and three officers of the united services. The ship was
freighted with a valuable cargo of silk and general mer-
chandise : and it is supposed that she must have suffered
severely from the late hurricanes, and become unmanageable
as she neared the channel. No authentic statement of the
circumstances has yet been received from the poor boy, who
is the only one saved. He is under the care of Mr. Hamil-
ton, her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Boulogne, and will
remain for the melancholy purpose of identifying any bodies
that may come ashore.

A letter - -
o the wreck was received yesterday
A. Adam, the agent at Boulogne. Of the entire cargo only
morning by aMnnr.-iiic.:i-Dngobson, secretary to Lloyd's, from Mr.
a few puncheons of rum have as yet been recovered.- The
accompanied him.
Mr. wreck is entirely gone to pieces. Mr. Green, the owner, de-
spatched his agent last evening to Lorel, for the purpose of
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The Conqueror was built at Newcastle, and purchased
only fast year by Mr. Green. Captain Duggan was an ex-
perienced officer, formerly in the company's service, and had
made several voyages to India. The first officer's name is
Mr. Harvey.
The following is a correct list of the passengers :—Mrs.
Thompson and four children, Mrs. J. Jenkins and four chil-
dren, Mrs. Major Johnson, Mrs: Turton, Major Johnston,
Mr. Marshall, Lieutenant Marshall, Captain Milner, Master
Blake, and Master Reeves.
A private letter dated Boulogne, January 14, gives the
following particulars :—" I beg to inform you, that an East
Indiaman, of 600 tons, came ashore, near Etaples, this morn-
ing. It is reported that eighty persons were aboard, of
whom some where soldiers, their wives and children; only
one person has been saved; but he is in such a deplorable
state as not to be able to afford any information. A Nor-
wegian, laden with salt and oranges, from St. Übes, become
a total wreck within four miles of this port; the crew is lost.
When this vessel came ashore at low water assistance was
Offered from the shore, but the crew would not abandon the
vessel ; when it was impossible to receive any, as the tide was
coming up, they requested assistance ; it was then too late to
render them any. A collier is also a total wreck in this
neighbourhood. '
About the same period a Swedish vessel was wrecked near
the same spot, and all hands perished ; and also an English
fruit vessel with the wh6le of her crew. Three other vessels
were also wrecked, and the crew of one of them drowned.

AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE-EIGHTY MEN
DROWNED.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail of Monday.)
It has seldom fallen to our lot to record so melancholy a
catastrophe as that which will be found detailed in the follow-
ing statement, being an extract from a letter this morning
received from a private correspondent at Dundrum, in the
county of Down. Eighty poor fishermen have fallen victims
to the snow-storm of ,Friday, many of them leaving widows
and helpless families to deplore their loss, and mourn over
the untimely fate of brothers, fathers, husbands, and other
relatives :

" DUNDRUM, 15TO JANUARY, 1843—THREE O'CLOCK,
P.M.—Friday morning was so very fine that almost all the
boats from Newcastle to Analong went out to their fishing
in the bay, where they had quite an uncommon take of fish.
About noon it came on to blow, with snow. Up to this hour
there are, I believe, seven boats from Newcastle and four
Nur Analong missing. They were skiffs, manned with
about six hands each. Some of them were seen to go down
by the crews of the boats which got in. One made Killough,
and sold five or six and twenty shillings worth of fish there;
in fact, I believe they were all heavily loaded. One boat
drifted in with two dead men in it. I think they reckon on
a loss of 48 souls at Newcastle, and about 30 at Analong, or
80 altogether; but I do not pretend to give you an official or
authentic account of the numbers, only what appears to be
the best and least exaggerated. You can easily picture the
state of the unfortunate widows and children along the coas
It is the most afflicting event that has ever occurred in th
quarter.
The Ulster Times, published at Belfast, gives the follow
ing further particulars of this distressing calamity :
Ten of the yawls or row boats, belonging to Newcasth
and it is believed six to Analong, proceeded to their usu:
employment of fishing, the morning being beautifully fin(
indeed, so much so, that they went many miles out to see
their crews little suspecting the awful doom that awaite
them, the weather indicating, to the most exper'enced
ii
nautical affairs, the most favourable day. Alas !
hot
treacherous and deceptive such prognostics ; for the win,
veered in an incredibly short time from due S. Co N.W. an
W., accompanied by a tremendous snow storm, blowin,
terrifically, and piercingly cold. The consternation ant
anxiety which soon followed, may in some degree b
imagined; but to convey an idea of the misery and afflictio;
which was depicted in nearly every countenance, defies al
power of description. The shrieks and cries of wives
parents, brothers, and sisters, running to and fro, abso
lutely frantic with despair, for the dreaded fate of those at
nearly and dearly connected with them, was truly heart
rending. Reckless of the inclement weather, they sought it
every sea-ward direction for the consoling return of their re•
latives and friends, but how few the number to whom this
happiness was afforded ?—for, out of the ten boats which left
Newcastle harbour on that morning, but three returned, tht
crews of which having had the most miraculous escape, art
left to mourn over the fate of forty-seven of their unfortu.
nate companions,that being the number belonging to this:
small village alone, which have by this disaster met a watery
grave. It is computed that from twelve to twenty of those
are married, and all, or nearly so, leaving families, and many
of them large, to not only deplore their untimely death, but
to encounter the additional calamity of inevitable poverty.
And to this catalogue of suffering and woe may be added,
that many a son that day perished who was the sole support
afid comfort of an aged and helpless parent. Nearly every
cottage of the humble classes presents a scene of the most
painful and distressing sorrow.
Between Analong and Newcastle, twenty-seven other lives
have been lost in the same way; and, what renders it the
more pitiable is, that some of the persons on shore, perceiving
the exertions of their friends at sea unavailing to make head
against the storm, the poor brave fellows manned a boat,
with ten picked able men, and launched her amidst every
danger, in the hope of saving their fellow creatures' lives;
but, shocking to relate, they never returced, having perished
in the laudable and perilous attempt to render assistance to
their perishing neighbours. Such daring efforts deserved a
better fate. The crews of some of the boats being unable to
row any longer, it is conjectured, owing to excessive cold and
exhaustion, cast anchor ; but many were soon washed over-
board : one was found quite dead, having foundered ; and
two others shared the same fate, from a similar cause, a short
time after being brought ashore.
Thus, in one day, and within a distance of six miles,
seventy-four fellow-ereatures have met a watery-grave,—
forty-seven belonging to Newcastle, and twenty-seven to An-
nalong and its vicinity.
There is a coincidence in many respects, of a very melan-
choly and remarkable nature attached to this unhappy cir-
cumstance, which is, that, on the 10th of this very month,
twenty-nine years ago, forty fishermen belonging to the
same places were drowned—thirteen to Newcastle, and
twenty-seven to Annalong—being the same number lost now
of the late, and by a snow-storm also, there being but three
days difference in the day of the month ; so that, the snow-
storm, the month, and the amount of lives lost in one of the
places, bear the most perfect similitude.
Among the numerous casualities and accidents resulting
from the awful snow storm of Friday night last, the following
melancholy case occurred :—A respectable old farmer, named
Isaac Macfarlane, and his wife, aged respectively, 63 and 60
years, were returning from the market of this town, with
their horse and cart, on the above evening, to their place of
residence in the neighbourhood of Collin mountain, about
six or seven miles from Belfast. As the did not reach home
at the usual time, their eldest daughter, who managed the
household affairs, supposed they had stopped at their son-in-
law's house, a few miles from the town, and she and the re-
mainder of the family, consisting in all of thirteen children
went to bed. The daughter had some warrant for coming to
this conclusion, as one of her brothers, who had gone to
school the same evening, did not come back—the teacher
having kept him at his own house, on account of the storm.
Next morning, the young woman alluded to, went out to see
about the lad, and at some distance from the house, she saw
her father's horse standing beside the- cart, out of which tht
animal had struggled during the night, and disengaged itself;
and a little farther on, the poor girl discovered her father and
mother lying on the ground, locked in each other's arms, ano
quite dead!
From all we have heard of this truly lamentable affair, it
would appear that the old couple had been riding in the cart,
and that such was the intensity of the cold, and the severity
of the storm, that the horse could not brave it, and they had
both got out of the cart to endeavour to make their way to
their own house, when they were overpowered by fatigue and
the numbness and stupor which usually accompany severe
gold ; and, in this state it is probable they had lain down
where they unhappily perished. During that night, and the
succeeding morning, the snow in many places was six to eight
eet deep, but where the bodies were found it might have been
)erhaps about three deep. The affectionate, but unfortunate,
;ouple had succeeded in getting into their own farm, and were
within about 200 yards of the dwelling-house, when death
overtook them. The old man held about one hundred acres
of land, and resided beyond Collin, in one of the bleake
parts of that mountainous district

" Permit me, Sire, to assure your Imperial Majesty of my
profound respect, and that my efforts will be constantly di-
rected to obtain the Satisfaction and approval of your Imperial
Majesty."
The reply of His Imperial Majesty was as follows :
" You may assure your august Sovereign, that this addi-
tional proof of her friendship is very gratifying, and is highly
esteemed by me." _

The private audience solicited by his Excellency is, we
understand, appointed for the 2d proximo.
The exchange at Rio was 26i, on the packet sailing, and
she left there Commodore Purvis in the Alfred frigate.

Advices from Tunis of the 20th ult., published by the
Journal des Debuts, announce that the Bev had, of his own
free will, proclaimed the freedom of the children of slaves
hereafter born in the regency. A fortuitous circumstance
led to the adoption of that measure. A black family, doomed
to be sold separately, had taken refuge in the house of M.
de Lagau, the Consul-General of France, and claimed his
protection. The next morning M. de Lagau waited ou the
Bey, and his highness was so moved by the painful picture
which the consul drew of the wretched fate which awaited
that family that, after interrogating the father and mother,
he ordered his minister to purchase them and treat them
with the greatest kindness, and then, turning to their child.
he told him that he was free, and solemnly declared that all
the children who should hercatter be born in the regency
should be free. This decision was immediately promulgated,
and was to be strictly executed.

FATAL ACCIDENTS.—The following loss of life took place
at Grangemouth one evening last week. A sailor who had
been on shore, in going along a plank to return to the vessel.
which was lying in the canal, accompanied by a young wo-
man, happened to lose his balance, and, catching bold of the
girl, both unfortunately fell into the water. An old woman

who was near the spot at the time of the accident gave the
alarm, and, it is reported, rushed into the water to lend her
feeble aid to save the drowning couple. The captain of the
vessel also plumed into the water for the same humane pur-
pose, but perished. Exertions were now made by several
people to remove the bodies from the water. The captain
was taken out lifeless. The bodies of the girl and sailor
were taken out clasped in each other's arms. The poor old
woman was taken out alive, but is not expected to survive.—
Caledonian Mercury.

ACCIDENT AND NARROW ESCAPE.—On Saturday even-
ing two coke trains, on the Midland Company Railway, came
in collision, near Derby, and one of the engines and several
carriages were smashed. It appears, that the first coke en-
gine, owing to some defect, could not get along : the conse-
quence was, that a second coke train overtook it, and, not-
withstanding the guard of the first train exhibited the signals,
the second train ran into them, and a fearful collision oc-
curred. The guard of the first train sprang off just as the
second came upon them. The engine was smashed and now
lies on the line. On Friday, as a Nottingham train was
getting away from the station, a North Midland luggage train
came up from the north, and nothing but the extraordinary
presence of the points' man prevented a frightful calamity.
Seeing the danger, he reversed the point, and sent the passen.
ger train on to another line just as the luggage train came up
to the junction. Had a collision taken place, the passenger
train must have gone over the embankment, perhaps into the
river.