The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-10 00:00:00

NELSON'S

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Monk, bound (int
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and £6OO worth of butt,

down early in tt

I went on horseback near the wreck, and, to my
surprise, saw persons moving on it. I immediately galloped
upwards of three miles for the life-boat, and I mustered a
crew, and went on board, and saved two persons.- Three
had just died; and, the sea running high, it was impossible
to get them out. On Saturday night (when she struck) four
saved themselves by coming ashore in the twat. The place
where the vessel stranded was opposite the Fair-Way Buoy,
inside of Carnarvon Bar. The captain threw himself over-
board, when the life-boat was in sight, thinking to swim
ashore, but failed. We picked him up on board the life-boat
quite dead, an.l the body is now lying in our church, w
an inquest.
" I am, Sir, &c., your humble servant

orning, for the purpose of rendering som

assistance

" JOHN JONES

The editor of the Albion, in a second editicW,WyeSte'
blished about noon, gives a letter with which he had

favoured

dated on Sunday

Paynter, of Carnarvon, and also

e number of tho

The writer, after stating that the Skimmer, the Vale,
and the Snowdon (steamers of this port) had all experienced
the effects of the gale, but without loss, and that the first
steamer had got aground, and would be neaped, says :
"It has been awfully otherwise with the Monk. In re-
turning from Portdinllaen yesterday, she struck on the North
Bank, about six o'clock, being nearly low water at the time.
The engine immediately bceame disabled, and she stuck fast.
They shortly after, being apprehensive of danger, showed
lights and burnt a tar barrel as signals to the Llanddwyn
life-boat, but she having been at Carnarvon yesterday, the
-eturning obliged to leave her at Aber nenai,
e signals were observed, and an attempt was
made to reach the vessel, it was found impossible to do so
against a strong flood tide and head wind, and the melan-
choly consequence was, that the vessel going to pieces, 22 or
24 persons perished, and only six were saved. The pigs,
cows, butter and wreck are strewed about the Straits.
Four of those saved got into a small punt, about two hours
after she struck ; and, though they were once capsized, even-
tually got safe o❑ shore. Two others were saved this morn-
ing, on part of the wreck, by the life-boat.
The body of Captain Hughes is, as yet, the only one found.
He jumped overboard to endeavour to swim ashore, although
the Life-boat was seen, and was overpowered, after getting
into shallow water scarcely sufficient to cover him, and was,
at the time, on his hands and knees, most prdbably in a state
of insensibility. I believe he had no person on board ac-
quainted with the bar. Perhaps you will have inquiries about
the circumstance. I give you the names of those saved.
PER SHIP'S 130 AT.
Mr. Owen Williams, Gafall y gam, who is now with me.
Thomas Davies, Portdinllaen, father to little Tom
Hugh Jones, engineer.
Thomas Jones, Cair dur.

crew were in

so that when th

PER LIFE-BOAT.
Griffith Jones Ellis, driver to Mr. 0. Williams.
William Oven, Bodlas.

Among those drowned is a son of Mr. James, the officer
of Portdinllaen, and Mr. Matthew James, master of a large
vessel belonging to Liverpool."

The Monk was formerly a river boat, plying between
Liverpool and Monk's Ferry, and was, we learn, recently
purchased by Captain Andrew Jones and others, for the
Welsh trade in stock and passengers. It is stated that a
considerable number of the unfortunate persons on hoard
perished (some of them, it is said, in the hold) from exposure
to the weather and the waves. The greater part, it is added
were the owners of the pigs, butter, &c., which they had
left their homes to dispose of in this market.

—We learn that nearly 100,000
copies of " Dickens' Notes" have been already sold, princi-
pally at 12i cents each. This great amount of demand for a
trashy brochure, effectually destroys a taste for American
literature. People can only read or buy a certain kind of
literature. If that quantity is supplied so cheaply, none will
purchase a higher priced kind. This is reason enough for an
international copyright law.—American Paper.

THE LATE BANKRUPTCY CUANGE,S.—The Legal Ob-
server, of the 24th ult., contains an article on these changes;
" the mischief arising from them, and the duty of the pro-
fession as to them." The writer says—" The country, it is
manifest, will be robbed of thousands, by the scandalous in-
crease of expenditure this scheme must occasion, to put hun-
dreds into some new-made pockets; and the obstacles thus
imposed, must, in a great measure, prevent the very applica-
tion of the brankrupt law ; and, where they do not absolutely
prevent its application, must so impede its working as to
render the remedy almost worse than the disease." lie then
goes on to enumerate the objectionable features of the tnea-
sure, for which we must refer to the article itself.

EXEMPTION' OF CHURCHES FROM ASSESSMENTS.—That
parish churches have, from time immemorial, been exempt
from all local assessments, as well as remarkable for being
entitled to remission of duties on materials used in their erec-
tion, such as glass, timber, bricks, &c., are facts so well
known that they need not be here repeated. The public,
however, until very lately, were not perhaps aware that, by
a recent decision in the Court of Exchequer, churches'erec-
ted by private individuals, and for private advantages, as
well as those by voluntary subscriptions, are also privileged,
not only to the above, but to a much_ greater extent. In

procf, a case was lately brought before the judges of the ex-
chequer involving the question, whether a church erected by
a nrivate individual, and the rents of the pews in such rnort-

tiler the mortgagee in such instance was liable
)-the expenses incurred by the commissioners of police in
the paving and sewering of certain streets surrounding the
church, in common with all other owners and ruortg;gees
of property in the township, in proportion to the extent of
their respective properties ? After a long argument, it was
decided (in the exchequer) that the mortgagee was not
liable. The sum claimed in this case (All Saints' Church,
Chorlton-upon-Medlock) by the surveyors of Chorlton was
nearly £4lOO.

FIRE.—REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.--St. Michael's
Manse, Dumfries, is at present under repair, though Dr.
Wallace and his family still continue to occupy part of it.
On Wednesday, the men who are engaged in the work, on
returning after dinner to the manse, perceived the smell of
fire, and observed smoke issuing from an apartment usually
occupied by the cook, who at present is on a visit to her
parents, in consequence of bad health. On entering the
chamber the workmen found a trunk, belonging to the absent
zirl, almost completely consumed away by a smouldering
ire; the whole trunk and its contents being one charred
nd red-hot mass. On breaking down this mass, to see if
!ley could save anything from being destroyed, they found
vo halfpennies completely run and soldered together—such
id been the intense heat within. Fortunately, the trunk
is standing almost wholly on the hearth-stone; and so the
e had reached the floor only on one side. The wood how-
tr, was fairly kindled ; and in half an hour more, the
010 house would have been in flames. At its present stage
vever, the fire was easily got under. The family were
3ediately apprised of the circumstance ; but none of them
'd account for the origin of the fire. It was suggested,
v servant, that the cook was in the habit
lucifer matches, and might have kept them in her
it they might have ignited of themselves in some
Dumfries Herald.

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To conclude with the New Comic Pantomime of
BARON IVIUNCHAUSEN ;
Or; Harlequin and the Green Wizard.