The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

LOSS OF TIT AMPHITRITE.

By the arrival of her Majesty's sloop Fantome at Ports-
mouth on Monday last, information has been received of
total loss of the British brig Amphitrite, Commander Mr.
H. Wills, on the 21st of July, off the island of Lobasbere,
near Monte Video. About noon on the 20th July she
was close into Cape St. Mary's on the look out for a pilot,
but none appearing, and there being a light easterly wind,
she continued her course, and at midday on the 21st
she was off the above island. The wind afterwards
increased with great violence, and a heavy shower of hail
and rain began to fall, and there being no pilot to be seen
on the station, all her sails were shortened, and she hove
to about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, with her head to
the southward, the weather at that thee being very thick,
and several high breakers near her. She, however,- still
made way, although very little, going at the early part of
the evening not more than •two knots an hour. At 8
o'clock the weather had become exceedingly misty, so
much so that the ship's length could scarcely be discerned,
and every precaution was adopted in order to prevent ac-
cident, a man being constantly at her mast head, and the
lead kept going. The captain, fearing from the violence
of the gale that if he anchored on the spot she would be
blown away from her moorings and every soul perish, de-
termined on keeping her under canvas, as from her posi-
tion he supposed she would make the Mount by the fol-
lowing morning. She kept going on very steadily till
about midnight, when the captain went down below for a
short time, the mate being at the mast-head, when he no
sooner did so than he heard a distant shock from her
striking forward, though in six fathoms, aft and hind.
The captain instantly rushed on deck and put the helm
a-port, which she answered, and the sails were set. The
heavy serf, however, that was running kept constantly
beating her on the shoal, and the crew expected every
moment that she would be beaten to atoms, and they all
meet with a watery grave. She soon got clear, and the
captain decided on running for Monte Video, although
the weather was exceedingly dark. Accordingly the pumps
were kept going, and the carpenters set to work to repair
the ship. Unfortunately, however, she had received too
great an injury, as the sea was fast flowing into the hold.
Notwithstanding this the captain still kept her on the
tack, and it was only at 3 o'clock on the following morn-
ing when the water was level with the cabin decks, that
the captain and crew, 13 in number, left the ill-fated ves-
sel in her boats. She soon went down in deep water, and
the crew-then steered for the above port, in doing which
they encountered most tempestuous weather, the boat at
one time being almost full of water and amidst breakers.
At length, after the lapse of six hours, they succeeded in
reaching Monte Video, greatly fatigued from excessive
exertion and exposure to cold. At this port it appears
the poor fellows were not treated by the Consul in that
kind manner which their destitute case deserved. They
have, however, safely arrived in England.

OBSERVATIONS IN RESPECT OF THE ISLANDS
OF RASAY AND RONA, IN SCOTLAND.

" The islands of Rasay and Rona form part of the Wes-
tern Hebrides, situated in the county of Inverness, lying
between the island of Skye and the mainland. Rona lies
directly north of Rasay.
RASAY.

" Rasay measures 12 miles. The breadth is 31 miles.
The island measures 15.126 acres. At the north end is
the island Tigh, separated only from Rasay at flood tide.
At the west side is the island of Fladda; it measures 1
mile and 2 furlongs. Rasay, including Tigh and Fladda,
amounts to 15,598 acres 2 roods and 31 poles. The island
is divided or let into 22 farms. Total arable in the island,
at present under cultivation, 1,266 acres. The island, or a
considerable portion, may almost be said to be now in its
naturally wild state. The inhabitants having no lease,
have had no inducement to improve their land, but there
are great quantities of land of good soil capable of being
easily improved, and lots of respectable yeomen ready to
occupy it on lease. Many of the glens present as beau-
tiful and as fine a surface as can possibly be seen. The
mansion-house is situated at the south end of the island;
it is of modern date, and is large and commodious. A
sketch is shown upon the plan. The front is all of dressed
ashler, from the freestone rock on the estate at Hallaig.
It is erected on the Doric order of architecture, in a chaste
and beautiful style, embellished with a magnificent stone
portico, opening to a spacious noble hall. A fine spring
passes through the estate. In fact, the islands are cele.
brated for the delicious springs which abound there in all
parts. The garden is a large square area of some acres in
extent. Near the house, on the beach, is one of the cele-
brated romantic caves in which Prince Charles was con-
cealed. Behind the house, and extending in a northerly
direction to near Osgaie, is a very fine plantation of elm
and larch, extending to 15 acres. About the church there
is a plantation of Scotch fir, beech, larch, and ash, ex-
tending to 26 acres. At Glaim and Castle, the natural
plantation extends to 310 acres. Between Balchurn and
Hallaig are several very fine lochs, abounding in black
trout, and the whole island abounds largely in grouse and
blackcock. There is plenty of fine blue limestone ; and
no doubt, if search was made, COAL WOULD ALSO BE
VOUND. Duncan, the highest hill in Rasay, presents
from the summit one of the grandest panoramic views of
Highland scenery in Scotland. On the east side the rocks
are of freestone, towering above each other, rising in ma-
jestic height upwards of 3,000 feet above the sea, and in
parts quite inaccessible, except to the wild goats which
abound on the rock, and which is known as the " Goat
Rock," and from which issues a gushing stream of the
purest water, providing a refreshment of the most delight-
ful description to the eager sportsman. In the island of
Fladda there is abundance of slate. There can be no
doubt that this only requires an enterprising tenant to se-
cure an enormous income.

RONA.

" Rona lies nearly directly north of Rasay. The island
is four miles in length, and one mile in breadth. There is
in several parts a large quantity of flow moss, that, with
very little expense, could be drained and brought under
cultivation. There is also in the Big Harbour plenty of
shell sand, nearly equal to good lime, which might be used
to great advantage upon the ground—almost none is at
present used. The island measures 2,414 acres, of which
there is at present 156 acres under cultivation. The Big
Harbour is a very safe and deep harbour. The island
abounds in grouse and game of all sorts."

AwFuL VISITATION.—One of those alarming and
dreadful acts of God's providence—the fall of a thunder-
bolt—attended with fatal effects, happened at Cooper's-
row, Runcorn, on Thursday night week, about ten o'clock.
The row consists of fourteen cottages, standing in a field
near to the entrance of the town, and the electric fluid
struck one near to the centre, entering the chimney, and
coming out above the mantelpiece, passed through the
room-floor about a foot from the grate, and descended to
the house floor hearth, around which were sitting the
unfortunate occupier's wife and two children, another
being in the cradle. The tenant, Thomas Moores, who
is a atone-mason, with a family of six children, had re-
tired to bed a few minutes previously, and three of the
children were also in bed in an adjoining room ; but the
wife, who bad all her life been greatly afraid of thunder,
was sitting up till the storm was over; and, dreadful to
state, the electric fluid struck her, and instantly rendered
her a frightfully mangled blazing corpse, dashing the chil-
dren against the opposite walls, and tearing up the flags
of the floor in its downward progress. Poor Moores
states that he was knocked out of bed down stairs, and
on coming to his senses found his wife's clothes on fire,
as well as several articles of clothing near the fire-place.
The neigbours fetched a surgeon, but the poor woman
was dead ; the two children and the infant in the cradle
recovered. The house is literally a heap of blackened
ruins.

SLAVERS AND PRIZE MONEY.—The "Acorn," 16,
sloop, Captain Adams, lately arrived at Devonport. Du-
ring the time she has been on the coast of Africa she has
made no less than nineteen captures of slave-vessels, and
that in the short space of two years and a half. On her
going out to the coast in the year 1841 she made a good
beginning, by capturing the noted slave brigantine " Ga-
briel," on board of which vessel they found 530 slaves.
They fell in with her between Rio Janeiro and St. He-
lena. The Anna was the next slaver she seized, in which
they found 500 slaves, in the most miserable condition.
They were huddled together so close as scarcely to leave
breathing room, and the miasmatic and unwholesome va-
pours that rose from the dens were almost overpowering.
In a place called a cabin in the after part of this vessel,
measuring 16 feet by 9, were no less than 219 females
packed. An officer of the Acorn at first supposed it in-
credible that so many human beings could be squeezed
into so small a space ; and it was by formally counting
the number that he satisfied himself of the fact. He said
it put him in mind of the celebrated black-hole of Cal-
cutta. In the fore part of this vessel, reaching from the
mainmast to the forecastle, 300 males were confined. This
part was called the gaol, and was 50 feet long by 27 broad,
the height being about 3 feet 3 inches. They were in a
most impure and filthy state, and were forced from the
lowness of the deck to keep in a sitting position, not hav-
ing room to lay themselves at length. Some of the other
captures of the Acorn were eqnally important, and made
with no less skill and resolution. The following revolting
account of this demoniacal traffic in human flesh has been
recommended to the attention of General Cass and the
American slavery defenders :—" The Portuguese schooner
of 41 tons, the Esperanza, has been condemned by the
Mixed Commission Court, and broken up for sale, agree-
ably to our treaty with I'ortugal. Her instructions con-
tain a tale of horror, requiring no varnishing to render it
a romance. She was commissioned for the coast of Africa,
for the Mozambique, and with a crew of ten men, and
provisions for fifteen days (!) was to take in 220 slaves, or
if small bales, so the slaves are termed, 250 ! and easily
packed in a space of (what ? gracious God !) the hold of a
vessel of 44 tons, with a height of 32 inches—ay, inches !
between the slave, or under, and upper deck. Manacles
and chains were on board to the number of 900 for another
cargo ; and with provisions for fifteen days was this fright-
ful freight—this cargo of human misery—to cross the wide
Atlantic, to traverse, at a bird's flight, nearly 4,000 miles.
Suppose calms, or adverse winds, or storms occurred—
suppose the voyage was delayed for twenty days, to no
port dare the slave-ship run ; from no vessel dare she
seek for assistance; 250 human beings, without food or
water, crammed into a space not high enough to sleep
when lying down in one position for 20 days and nights,
in a hold fetid with their own filth, without ventilation,
with a putrid and foul atmosphere, on a deck 32 inches
from the ceiling. Can any fiction, any romance, portray
what might have been the bitter agony, the tortures of
these Africans ? A slave can be purchased for 10 bars of
baft, or 10 pieces of blue cloth, say 205., and will fetch at
Brazil 480 dollars, or often £l2O. The immense profit
renders the slave traders regardless of human life; one
slave in every 10, if brought to Cuba or Brazils, yields an
ample return ; and anxious as our cruizers are to check
this wretched traffic, the western coast of Africa is too
vast and extensive for the fleet employed to watch it."

SPORTI...VG INTELLIGENCE
CHESTER OCTOBER MEETING, 1843'

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STEWARDS.
Hon. E. M. L. MOSTYN and J. joists, ..---*
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VW RSDAY, 00'013E3 19'
with 2060
The MOSTYN STAKES 15 - Ch 10 ft, 0
0f sons ea, 41
added. Half-a-m .
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Mr F R Price's ch f Missy, 2 yrs . • •••• ••• .(Arthsri
Mr M Jones's br c British Tar, 2 yrs ...... ' t
Mr Mostyn's b f by Agreeable, dam by Sam, (MarMO t
Sir 3 NYkr'sStanley's ch f .1;y. .... ''''
Pantaloon,' ''
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A splendid race, and won by I)eliffili
a hes.•, *
sThe 2 CHESTER
Speed's
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tSoTnA, STAKES of 10 0/81rs'abl''')
with 40 sons added. One mile-and-a-quartgon
7 12 Mr Davies's ch f Princess of Wales •• ( IN.;0-;
8 6 Mr Thompson's bg 11 udib3raYsr,ss. Yr.°. l'•('`';;°‘rsirle°,tilli
David, Pretension, Ermengardis, I ronY, BelPd woo bl
Gipsy Queen also started. A good race, and
neck. added
The SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 30 6-15 ,
Heats, once round and a distance.neo ti ii
Mr Cooke's ch g Bedalian, 6 yrs ...... (W J° si f 2
vaite .
Mr Thompson's br g by Shrigley, 4 V. 0
0)
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Mr Wairing's gr g Saul, aged .... ...... (Barker)t tid -ni
Mr Jones's b g Tunalcain, aged ...... PPe i'ee Ow
Mr J S Barry s b g Perdition .......... (Msr 00 1
A HURDLE RACE of 5 soya each, with 25 so" 010
Heats, the Grosvenor Course. 00,0
Mr Sutton's b g Defence, aged ....... . a
Weft I)) ,0
Mr Welch's br g Kirby Lonsdale, 4 yrs.. ( od) 0,1,0
Mr Birch's bl g Slashing Harry, aged (S°lBl'w° I/ "0
Mr Fowler's br g St. Valentine, 6 yrs 00)1)1
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Mr Atkinson's b m Lady of the Lake, les) al)
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Mr Shepherd's br g Mudlark, 5 yrs.. t - •,,,,„to 9 ,101
Mr Dawbcr names b g Ewbank, 5 qrs .. (I,.'in-oren) Is-.
Mr Gallimore's gr m by Japhet, 4 yrs (08°-
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LATEST BETTING BETTING AT mANcilEsll3'.
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bale 'etiiti
Last week's racing at Newmarket seems t°
_e lathed
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well our round betters. A few influentials hay..„,t040
the metropolis, to wind up the racing season;wtoP
several " departures" will take place to-tu°l
them. •sk hell4ool
On Monday and Tuesday we had some bll Pri leetscre
oe pt,
the eventsat once giv close at nd. These we she
side, and e the latest bettings, es rfibtoit''°l*
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40 to 2 was yesterday laid agst Ugly Buck.
Dawson (offered) Alt
force. 41 to 1 agst Heseltine (offered); .600
)Te;xnuEans,dctAhlmcoe nicatnoriogiGohEt::::::::.in
0. is I
ters (offered).
7 to 1 agst Blackdrop (offered, it `B--' )
11 to 1 Knight of the Whistle (takeu
11 to 1 Evenus (taken)
750 to 50 Coranna (taken)
300 to 21 Coranna (taken)
100 to 7 ---Semiseria (taken four times)
100 to 5 Nat (taken) Y)
100 to 6 Sister to Jessy (offered free'
100 to 5 Our Nell (taken)
100 to 4 St. Lawrence (offered)
100 to 4 Lady Sale (offered) .1
100 to 3 What (taken, then acre./
DERBY.
9 to 1 agst Ugly Buck (offered)
20 to 1 Voltri (offered, take 25)„„,
20 to 1 Seahorse (offered, take Jvi
40 to 1 Leander (offered) 10101
CHESTER TRADES' CUP' 0414 M
100 to 3 offered on the field. Offers Yeier,; sPliste
25 to 1 agst Rattan for Criterion and Pender 10t°,
Jeffy was then backed freely at 100 s to 6, pit
agst Drop ; 11 to 10 only asked between the
coed choice.
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LONGEVITY OF THE HORSE•--" 4 fe„r, - gobe'h,,in
departed this life a mare belonging to ''''• to es ' Or'
View Park, Bothwell—her principal daily joe el v
notice being the fact that she had COmPlelr;oto el
thit
dinary age of full forty years. She ca n' Or; 1,01_,;
bertson's possession in 1818, having th,de aliw;herd
comparatively advanced age of fifteen Y‘et,'",;,_"_.ao 401:,
pletes the sum total we have stated. ' ti-olrg.-0411'.
named, belonged to the hardy Highland "be odor,
the period of twenty-five Years! since 1 his is del,„
Robertson's property, served. him Lou lb:di v.
~ t.-10 i. 6
plough, saddle, or gig, kirk and mel JO" ios,,-;
of faithfulness which made her known in,, of Oro k,'
the surrounding parishes as the very Up; pot hiebLi
delity and perfection. For a long tim`•"o2Bl ll'
old
been looked upon with interest, as an an', finite/lu-
longed to a race of horses that has I°°,,serlansew,,e;
away, and every one was anxious to showmfor bet oe"j
treating her to a " hained hip " or filching id Jet,pas
butions from the corn kist. In this vOs,Y °ol•lrostch
became howe-backed ; but remained "'lle, si' o..sit
glazie," to the very last, and in sPPetr„-,.--0f )11:00_,,0-0-
a living contradiction to the great nuolu'ihree in $ l'''oo
had passed over her head. For two or et tbt Or ,nti
she had been rather a kindly-used peul3o( 0110‘9,',"
lar labourer, but notwithstanding this age go- je-s,
always put to any little tid of work that death., so !lid
was in harness the very week before her lot or Stir-o
old Jess might have lived much longer! 0. 000
blabs
lucky accident which hastened her dewlsher CI Ors it
week the venerable animal was enjuPeg hroegit;i iS5s•
paddock adjoining View Park House, ttecohhesooe,
burn meanders on its way, and havin,g, s for '' ‘l° 0
I' ocros it
she was unable to recover herself, .axisao°l°-tsii„o:
fore her situation was discovered 13" eat '000":00
Shea pparently recovered under the tree t°ooo 6sits'-eh-
applied, but was found dead in the stshice hatibera lot
caused no doubt, either by the injuries st! hol ~este_do,
in the pool, or by the strains to which ne,oBoo- trwe
jected when drawn out of it. The old 0400014et-,thol
buried in View Park garden with all the " her ' doe orb
in her own akin, and with her shoes cavity beliostir
have rarely heard of an instance of 10,11,,getbe 00Pre or:00
of this animal; and her case may ran!' With 01 tb'ib°
that were this faithful assistant treatea life oigp 101400
deration and kindliness the average. °f bogie :e 100
lengthened. In fact, this supposition pis
Who 10 ei 40
opinion of Mr. Youatt, and all others , AO eeeer;oll
on the natural history of the horse; a° ~ led the w II
assumed by them that we should fore' 7-1 frotsreyell•s(l
estimate of the natural age of the an and destneOrto °I,
period at which he is now worn out soin,ths°,fttlit'
recording instances of longevity, Mr: died s", recrobin
gentleman who had three horses that e that siit'Alr
30, 37, and 39. Mr. Cully mentions °V, IP felpil
ball in his neck at the battle of Prestou'"d ig.rt; 00,00
was extracted at his death, in 1758't died .i,be t frol
gives an account of a barge horse 0,804,, tbo,,` 01,
year. " There cannot," says Li- 0116'40101
severe satire on the English nation th horsey 00 o' pe'
the absurd practice of running our ,erioooolool
three years old, and working yin_,reth„ecl„, WI
before their limbs are knit or their " far h'id h'iOir
and cruelly exacting from them services. ..ort 0 skiltbo
bilin Pithe tea ebb
powers, their ages do not average a Thoro r e
_de _ i
..I
mentioned horse." The scientifice 'safely " OP r
•efi •mti tie(
Kingdom" declares that " it may ,he a io e • r, ti-- 0.• of
more horses are consumed in Engin,' in te-irbi° 000 to
than in any other country in the svo.- oared es dr if
qeriod, excepting those that perish snosid,. else Orr
has, with the English, been long c°„,augb' reale. 1,4
mere profit and loss, and it has beet, 1,": sod Pfor 1.• P,
bring the young horse early into icor
ain 03;505"
exhaust his strength, than to maintaispose ch re
period, and at a considerable expuse'„nci 03° „Sr,
matter requires much consideration, - iteclitlie
Abe
tio•aii,
tion too."—Scolch paper. —The OP f 17
POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIS;tion 0f.,05°
teresting table, exhibiting the Oyu' the ce"..to."'
cities and towns of Great Britain, hY ,re '
ticlii
is compiled from the recently publish
co
f 4Pre061440
Eng. Inha-
stat. bited gales' kr, iez
City or Town. Acres. l'louls' 26699 5,53e•'/,008
London,wDesotm.without
swithinter
city
wallsw a l
il s EOO
22
.....___
.... _
.14305177: .... ' ' ' '':
76
35
0:4
A, 1;0 0,
~36 1 1
City of London .... 600 16080 " si 060' .P.
2500
and liberty .. .. 1 47746 ./0
Southwark borough 590 13845 .. 067 00,
Adding other parishes • • „•',, 876956 ,----n115001)
Total. Metropolis 44850 2509" ___.----- 1015 A
_— ----- ,i 5823 2ilk- ',op
- 42059 ' 24 #9°
Manchester, borough 60i0 „t 260 _46 ,
Salford, borough .. 1220 100o'
....„--- ,543.1- Voioi
GlTasogtoawl., cityclasgow .
- ---;; 0107 :,../ ,
Total. Manchester 7290 5206 -------- t;7O 0)191
_____ ----- ~59 14 94 id,
Liverpool, bor. the 1 ,-Ann 42929 13'd 07 0 V
89 I's A 4
Park, Sze— .... f 7 573 8 . 4.7
2777 3089 51
.. 29661
,7,/' 3916 190
Do., suburbs .... • ..a 14.2,,„„"
• ......-----• „ow , 3
57444 '''......--- 4301'
~..... ------- 885 P. ,6202
Leeds borough and
Do., subur.b.s.}...
Town
Birmingham,Edinburgh cibtyor .. 18780 36121 ,„A5 1 / .10,
--- ------ 613.- 1
22898
__../ 3419,1 /
Total. Edinburgh
......_- •
....---„...., 29475 301 vi
Bristol, city rA ,
9631 ,-'''' v"
Do., suburbs - . n.,• _ Al
1840 927° 25917 ••••'S.4 1 /
_--- 5539' „ Wirt
8907
Total. Bristol 9870 1
___, .------- 500, od
- --- ---- .0-1 in Ur
Sheffield, borough
.it 2227 or
54°' 400 100',40
and parish a' eS e-I of is
214..5..0.
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