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

SLIGO

The schooner Tampico, Gregg, of 'Workington, laden
with wheat. oats, and beans, from Limerick, and bound for
Glassondock, after having been on her beam ends, and lost
binnacle, with compasses, 84e,, was running for this harbour
on the night of the sth instant, in a thick shower, struck on
liarbowling, near Roughley Point, and became a total wreck.
The master and two of the crew were saved by a boat which
put off from the Roughley pilot station. Four of the sailors
were drowned. Two of the bodies were washed ashore at
Roughley, and an inquest, held
by Alexander Burrows, Esq.,
on them. The following evidence was given :—Thomas
Curry, sailor, who, being duly sworn, saith, that he was
foremast man on board the schooner Tampico, bound from
Limerick to Glassondock, from which port (Tarbet Roads)
he sailed in said vessel, on Tuesday, the 2d January instant,
with a cargo of wheat, oats, and beans,
and that on the
second day after leaving Tarbet Roads the vessel sustained

During the storm on Friday morning the new mill belong-
ing to Mr. Ashby, on Warlingham-common, was struck by
the lightning, and severely injured. The electric fluid en-
tered at the top of the mill, and passed completely down the
building, conducted by the chain which is used to lift the
grain and flour from the bottom to the top. The chain,
which is of considerable substance, was broken into between
thirty and forty pieces, and exhibited the appearance as
though it had been subjected to the action of a very fierce
fire. One of the sails of the mill was also shattered to pieces
and thrown a considerable distance, and the main beams of
the building were likewise very muchl shaken, but fortunately
they did not ignite. The whole of the men employed had
Dnly a few minutes before left to get their breakfasts.

TIIE COTTON TRADE
_AND MANUFACTURES

From "Burn's Commercial Glance" for 1842, just pub-
lished, which may be viewed in the light of a quasi-official
review of the cotton trade and manufacture annually in all
its branches, the following facts, or figures, are collected il-
lustrative of the operations of the past year, and as compared
in general results with several former years.
Of raw cotton the total quantity taken
for consumption or burnt, during the Bags.
year 1842 is given at . 1,221,693
Deduct, destroyed in the great fire at
Liverpool 42,000 bags, less salvage
12,000
•30,000
Real amount entering into consump-
tion
1,11693 In 1811 the quantity taken for consumption was.. 1,1198,,717
1810 id
1
1839..
1838 id . 1,043,511
1837 id 1,265,116
. . .. .
In 1830 the quantity was only
To 1836 the increase gradually
was t 0.......... 1,031,900805,254
For the last year, 1842, it must be observed that in con-
sequence of the commotions in Lancashire arising out of the
strike and the Anti-Corn-Law League, there was a loss of
four weeks in the consumption, or only 48 weeks' mill work-
ing instead of 52. The quantities here enumerated comprise
all that was purchased, forwarded, and taken for consumption
in London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, during the year. The
weekly average of cotton delivered from Liverpool to the
manufacturers in the Lancashire and neighbouring districts
for consumption is stated at 21,635 bags; but this estimate
is made upon the 52 weeks, without allowance for the four
weeks when most of the factories were at a stand. Assum-
ing for those four weeks a corresponding rate of consump-
tion, or of 20,000 bags weekly only, the amount for 1842
should stand thus :
Quantity actually delivered for consumption..... 1,191,693
Four weeks lost at 20,000 per week .

1,271,693
So that, but for the machinations of the anti-corn-law peo-
ple, the consumption of raw cotton in the manufactories
would have exceeded that of any former year, 1840 excepted,
a year of extraordinary over-production.
The total weight of cotton yarn exported in the year-
-1842 is stated at
136,537,162 lbs.
In 1811
115,665,483

Excess in 1842 20,871,679 lbs
The increase was chiefly tb the following countries :-
1842. 1841.
,
To Russia
Holland 22,041,247 16,376,618
Hanse Towns
India and China
Turkey and Levant 8,987,786 - 6,467,694
Hanover 2,325,689 1,069,117
The total weight of yarn in manufactured
goods exported during the past year is
stated at
129,842,680 lbs.
Add cotton yarn exported..
cotton thread id 1,972,632

Total export measured by weight of yarn 268,252,474
In 1841 the total export was equal to 258,871,745 lbs.
1810 to..
In the following flourishing years-
-1836 the export was
•
1837 id 207,576,839
1838 id
The total values of the goods and yarn exported were—
For 1842 £15,068,586
1841 17,247,084
1810
1838 17,966,837
1837. 16,153,859
1836 20,656,408

QUANTITY OF CORN PAID DUTY SINCE THE NEW
LAW.—London, from Ist May to 30th December, 1842,—
Wheat, 853,230 quarters ; barley, 8,023 quarters ; oats,
185,304 quarters ; rye, 893 quarters ; beans, 12,314 quarters ;
pease, 16,639 quarters; flour, 255,866 cwt. United Kingdom,
from Ist May to sth December,--Wheat, 2,632,574 quarters ;
barley, 45,271, quarters ; oats, 281,612 quarters ; rye, 35,222
quarters; beans, 39,075 quarters; pease, 72,353 quarters ;
dour, 978,310 cwt.

IRON TRADE.—The usual quarterly meetings of the iron-
masters were held during the last week. The anticipations
that a considerable demand would have arisen from the
settlement of affairs in the east and the commercial treaty
with China, were not realised, having been checked by the
delay in the completion of the arrangements with Spain and
Portugal, which caused hesitation on the part of purchasers
of iron, while the expectation of their being speedily and
favourably concluded induced the ironmasters and holders to
be firm, and but few sales were effected and no very large
contracts made. A confident expectation exists, however,
that as spring advances, and the arrangements alluded to are
completed, there will be an increased demand, with a full
maintenance of present prices, if not a considerable advance.
The sales made by needy individuals, under such suspense,
cannot be considered to form a criterion of the market prices.
Birmingham Gazette.

tome damage in a gale, which obliged the captain to bear
up for the harbour of Sligo, near which, off Roughley, the
Vessel struck, at about 10 p.m., on the sth instant, in a
fog, upon Harbowling rock, upon which she remained for
some hours, and went to pieces; three of the crew, consisting
of seven persons, namely, the captain, William Gregg, the
above named Thomas Curry, and Charles Jay, having been
saved ; the remaining four, namely, William Cohue, the
mate, Simon Flanagan, James Curry, and James Walker,
were washed off the wreck and drowned ; the deceased, Simon
Flanagan, was washed overboard about 5 o'clock a.m., on
the 6th ; the remaining three, namely, William Gregg,
Thomas Curry, and Charles Jay, having been rescued by
Thomas Carway and his crew in a boat. Ile states further,
that they were so exhausted by fatigue and exposure to cold
and wet, that they could not possibly have survived much
longer. Charles Jay sworn—ls one of the survivors who
was on board of the Tampico schooner, and corroborates the
above stateinent.S/i.go Journal.

(From the Cork Constitution.)
The mischief caused by the late storm has been very great.
Trees, to the amount of from four to five hundred, and up-
wards of two hundred years old, consisting of oak, ash,
beech, and elm, were levelled to the ground, in a park
in this neighbourhood. It appears that during Thursday
night or early on Friday morning, the hurricane broke
over a hill to the rear of the demesne house, on which a
cabin was erected. The inmates were in bed at the southern
side of the house, and the storm which came in a south-
westerly direction, carried away the northern portion of the
house from the centre, and to this circumstance is owing the
safety of its inhabitants. It then entered the demesne of
Pembroke, and swept the timber on the slope of the hill be-
fore it like straws. Following the slope it rushed along the
valley with fearful violence, and tore up every tree that im-
peded its progress. In the valley it diverged slightly, but
still might be said to have kept almost in a straight line from
the south-west. It passed through the orchard tearing up the
fruit trees, and strewing them about in all directions as if they
were small bushes. It raged through the demesne, keeping a
straight line, in its onward course. Such trees as withstood the
blast had the branches blown off and scattered in all directions.
At length it made its exit at Tourin, which adjoins Pem-
broke, passed the row of cottages on Tourin without doing
any material injury, crossed the river, and entered the de-
mesne of Merino, the seat of T. G. French, Esq. Here its
violence was abated, but not until some injury was done, se-
veral hundred panes of glass having been broken in the
green-house, conservatories, &c. With the exception of
Pembroke and Merino, no other place suffered injury in the
neighbourhood of Passage. The singular and fantastic man-
ner in which immense trunks of trees are thrown about at
Pembroke is really surprising. Some are torn frcm the place
they grew, about 30 yards; others are chopped at the base
as if some handy woodman had been at work on them.
Others may be seen actually turned upside down, and many
which were not blown down, are bereft of branches, which
were hurled off to the distance of several yards. In fact,
not a tree for half a mile of the demesne over which the
tornado passed but bears some indelible marks of the pitiless
storm. The most singular thing to notice is, that, during
the destructive ravages of the hurricane, it made a regular
passage for itself through the demesne, clearing a space of
about forty feet wide, while the trees, on either side have
escaped the slightest injury ! The trees that have been
blown down are of little value, owing to the trunks being
riven in several places by the violence of the concussion
when coming in contact with the ground.
We regret that there has been a loss of life in some degree
attributable to the effects of the storm. During the night of
Thursday, the house of a farmer, named Robert Hourahan,
residing in the parish of Ahabollogue, about ten miles from
the city, was unroofed, and one end blown down. In con-
sequence of the dilapidated state of the building, the family
were compelled to seek shelter in the house of a neighbour,
while three farm labourers went to sleep in the barn. Not
having taken any rest on Thursday night, they lay down in
the straw in the barn, about nine o'clock on Friday evening,
having taken a small bit of lighted candle in with them,
which, it is supposed, they neglected to put out. However,
about eleven o'clock, flames were perceived to issue from the
house, and, before any assistance could be rendered, it was
burned to the ground, and with it the three unfortunate men.
Saturday their frames, for almost all the flesh was consumed,
were dug from the ruins.

LOSS OF ANOTHER EAST INDIANIAN.
Yesterday, information was received in the city that
another East India trader had been added to the melancholy
catalogue of losses occasioned by the late violent gales. The
vessel is named the Jessie Logan, the property of C. Logan,
Esq., a merchant at Liverpool, from which port she traded
to and from Calcutta ' • she was 850 tons burden, and com-
manded by Captain Major. On Monday last, the vessel
being on her homeward voyage, was beating up channel, and
apparently making for Tintazell or Bade Bay, on the Cornish
coast, for which the north-west wind would have been favour.
able but for its extreme violence, and at length she became
unmanageable, and was driven aground off Boscastle, formerly
Bottereau Castle, about seventeen miles from Launceston.
Blue lights and other signals of distress were made, but such
was the fury of the gale and the violence of the surf, that
none would venture to her assistance, and at length she drifted
on the rocks and soon became a total wreck. She had evi-
dently been abandoned by the crew and passengers, but from
the long-boat having been washed on shore, it is feared they
have all perished, as up to the time of writing this account
no information had been obtained respecting these ill-fated
persons, and from the fact of the Jessie Logan not being a
London trader, no account of the number of her crew or
passengers could be procured. She was a North American
built vessel, termed in commercial parlance a " Quebecker."
Her cargo, consisting of rum, sugar, spices, and general
East India produce, was being hourly washed ashore ; but no
despatches or papers of any kind have, it is presumed, been
recovered, as none have as yet reached the East India House,
the Jerusalem Coffee-house, or Lloyd's. It is not at present
known whether she was uninsured, or whether underwritten
at Liverpool or London, nor till further accounts arrive can
any clue be given as to the value of the cargo.—Morning
Herald of yesterday.
The losses reported in the books at Lloyd's to-day present
a less formidable appearance in numbers, but still some of
them are of a serious description, involving the underwriters
and insurance companies to a great amount. The wreck of
the Jessie Logan, from Calcutta to Liverpool, at Boscastle,
will, it is stated, affect Lloyd's and the insurance offices to
the extent of about £lO,OOO. No accounts having yet been
received of the crew or passengers, it is feared the awful
catalogue of the sacrifice of life in the late disasters will have
to be increased by the addition of these to the numbers who
have perished.—limes of yesterday.