The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

g existed
nsenuenee of the

id deal of feeli

distresS." it does not appear that the Clem
Jermy attached 'any importance to the prediction of
his servant. Stubbs also mentioned, as a proof of
Mr. Rush's violent temper, that when the distress was
put on the farm he acted as bailiff there. Rush wanted

) take a stove of

him. Rush s
ing, " The first man who toilet

the stove, and y

by his threat, exclai

, who was not to be frightened
" I might as well be without
nd removed it from the

biaius as without the stove

He was adviseetto take ste

threats, and have him bound over to
he did not do so.

-eep the

peace, but

We are_ happy to state that Mrs. &Tray is pro-

g favOuiably towards recovery

s Maid

who sustained a compound fracture of the thigh from a
discharge of the slugs, and who has suffered great agony

from the wound, still lies in a precarious state. The me-
dical men have succeeded in reducing the fracture, and
she is doing as well as can be expected after so critical an

peration

DREADFUL CATASTROPHE ON BOARD OF THE
" LONDONDERRY" STEAMER.

We last week gave, in 'a second edition,_ copies of two

the effect that from a revolt amongst emigrants, for the
purpose of plunder, a number of lives had been sacrificed.
The accounts, as we then stated, were vague, and irre-

concileable ; one stating the fatality to have occurred on
board of an emigrant ship, which had shortly before left
Ireland, and the other leading to the supposition that the
crew of the " Londonderry" steamer, Captain Johnstone,
which had arrived at Londonderry, from Sligo, with a
number of dead bodies, had transhipped the same from
some emigrant ship which they had met off the coast.

The lass of life was stated in one account to be forty, and
the other fifty-three. It is now fully disclosed that the
fearful fatality occurred solely on board of the " London-
derry," on her voyage from Sligo towards Liverpool—that
it was not occasioned by a rising of passengers to rob

their fellows, though attended with circumstances in-
volving great criminality amongst some of the persons on
board. The whole catastrophe arose from the forcible
crushing down and closing up of the passengers, in a
small steerage apartment, in which want of air produced
madness, suffocation, and death. The loss of life was
even greater than that stated in our first accounts, no
fpwpr than NcrPri.hi-tuln individuals having nerished I

The arrival of the " Londonderry" at Londonderry,
with the bodies on board, on Sunday morning, naturally
caused much excitement in the public mind, and gave
rise in the first instance to unfounded rumours, which
found their way to the Dublin, Liverpool, and even
London journals.
It appears that the Londonderry left Sligo about four
o'clock on Friday evening, with about 150 deck passen-

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gers, (besides a few others in the cabins,) most of them
intending to emigrate to America, from Liverpool. The
night became stormy, and the deck passengers were
ordered below, into a room 20 feet long, 14 wid, and 64
feet in height.

The authorities of Londonderry, immediately on the
arrival of the vessel, instituted an enquiry, through the
coroner, into the_ circumstances of the fatality, and in the

f the evict

luced. It is supposed that some of the men beca
and, it is supposed, killed their companion

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robberies it is also. said were committed—the place being
for a long time in total darkness—and, it is further said.
that violation of females was attempted. Fighting took
place, apparently promiscuously, amongst the men, but
this subsided as, the number of the living gradually de-

creased. The reader of the details wil
the horrors of the Black Hole of Calcutt
of which we give in another column.
On Sunday, Minchin Lloyd, Esq., coroner, proceeded
to hold an inquest on one of the bodies, that of Ann
M`Loughlin, a little girl eight years
.of age,
.one of the

a description

sufferers. A sister of the deceased said, she, her mother,
and seven children, six of them girls, had left Sligo in the
vessel, to join her father and brother i❑ England. They
were from Mayo. The mother and four of the children
died in the steerage. The place got very warm, from the
number of people in it, men, women, and children. Her
mother and others were clamorous for water, and she (wit-
ness) got some more than once, but it was always snatched
from her. The deceased said there were robbers, and the
witness saw sticks used, and men beating her mother and
other women. She got to the deck at last, but could not
tell how, she was so weak and exhausted.
ThP lest w-a then adjourned, and the magistraf

..ne ingth sas
issued a warrant for the commitment of the captain, mate,
steward, and crew of the vessel, which was immediately

executed

Ike. 12. MIS.

were continued almost unceasingly until four or five in
the morning. A sailor came down to the forecastle to
change his clothes, and in reply to questions put by this
witness, said that the people were only Irishmen fighting
amongst themselves, and that there was no danger. In
the morning, two of the crew were engaged in assisting
the geople, and no men could have exerted themselves
more than they did ; three women were handed into the
forecastle, where witness was, and one of them was dead,
and another died soon after.

Richard Hughes, mateof the Londonderry, said thevesser
was in imminent danger from nine o'clock on Friday
night till nine next night, owing to the storm. The
steerage companion was secured, and a tarpaulin put over
it, secured with a rope and two nails. The rope was twice
coiled round the companion. Branan said to this witness
that the passengers were robbing and murdering one
another. He got a light and saw five of the passengers
(lead. He saw a man almost naked strike several women.
The man was not mad at the time. He saw Branan, who
had a dead woman, who, he said, was his sister, between
his knees, and threatened to have witness hanged. One
of the passengers who wore brought up died on the deck,
and two of them in the engine-room. When running
before the wind they did not use the tarpaulin, but. when
they hauled up to clear Arranmore, they had to replace
it, and again secure the companion. Putting aside fight-
ing and blows, he would thus account for the deaths—

country people, even in moderate weather, are helpless
from F ek n ess . and cannot be moved, even about the
decks; and, on this occasion, he can suppose that they
were rolling over each other from the to

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