The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

TUE LIVERPOOL gtANIliARii.

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, SEACOMAL---In consequence of
the difficulty of completing the tibtitt place of worship, its
promoters have decided upon holding a bazaar, on the
6th, 7th, and Bth of September, on the bowling-green, at
Mr. Parry's Hotel, Seacombe. A considerable debt
remains to be liquidated, and several additions and decor
rations are required to complete the building, in accord-
ance with the original design of the architect; the effort
now made will; no doubt, receive a liberal response on the
part of all true friends to the church. Several of the most
influential ladies connected with the district, have
and to aid the object; and amongst the early
re Lady Tobin, Mrs. Byrth, Mrs. H. Little-
&c., &c.

come f

RES ON PHYSIOLOGY.—Dr. Pettigrew, of Lon-
vered the first of a course of six lectures at the
to Institution on this subject, on Friday evening,
b was attended by many of our medical townsmen.
Pettigrew is a pleasing speaker, adorning his subject
with the graces of language, and treating it in so popular
a style as to make it understood and admired by persons
of the humblest capacity. On Friday evening the lecturer
treated of the brain, and will continue that branch of the
subject this evening. He has also promised to exhibit
the effects of chloroform on animals this evening
reater I cannot eou

don, deli
Coll(

but that this course of lectures will be suc-
nd we may add that the present series is the last

Dr. Pet tigre

liver in our tows

_MAILS TO DUBLIN.—A new arrangement for the
transmission of the mails from Dublin to London, via
iliiverpool, will come into operation from and after the
The mail packet from Liverpool
.6stown pier at 4 30 p.m., instead of at
..ot. The object of that arrangement is to
.arrival of the mail from Dublin at Liverpool
~uch an hour in the morning as to permit it to be for-
warded from the latter town to London by the 6 a.m.
said that with a view to this, as well
.„,,ges, more powerful boats will be put on the
.e to Liverpool. All the correspondence between Ire-
land and those places to which Liverpool offers the speedi-
est communication will go by this route, all that for London
direct and the places on that line will go rid Holyhead.
THe MONOMANIAC AT THE ASSIZE COURT.—On

will then leave

?nsure the

train. It is

Tuesday morning, immediately on Mr. Justice Cresswell
entering the Crown Court, the venerable old lady who has
now for so many years gone " the circuit " with their
lordships, and who had, some minutes before the judge
arrived, placed herself in a conspicuous part of the court,
se, and in a determined tone, demanded the learned
to restore to her her property. His lordship mil-
' t be came there to try prisoners, and not
He would listen to her application

t. the proper time

` Yes, but

said the old bOdy,

"tiff& some persuasion, she was
prevailed upon to retire, although not before promising his
lordship that she would pay him another visit.
POLICE-COURT, YESTERDAY.—The cases brought up
yesterday possessed little interest, being chiefly the ordi-
nary disorderly cases and petty thefts. The only one wor-
thy of notice was a case brought on by Kehoe and Bates,
of the detective police, in which two men were charged
with being found in possession of a small bale of drapery
goods, under suspicious circumstances. The prisoners,
who were apparently labouring men, were stopped in
Marybone, along which street they were proceeding in a
car with the goods in question, which the driver said he
had brought from a but in a brick-field in Kirkdale. On
searching the hut in question, the officers found part of
she wrappering of another hale. which tallied in material
with that of the bale found. They had ascertained that
several parcels of goods had been carried away in a loose
state, by women and others S)n Sunday morning. The
men stated in defence that they had been employed by a
man named Derrick (who is known to the police); and
they were remanded to allow of the remainder of the
goods being traced, as it is said that four bales altogether

Eu-(i Awe* T? i-te arc

LOCAL MEETINGS

HARE.INGTON WATER WORKS.—At a meeting on
Wednesday, for finally winding up the affairs, a dividend
,f £9 5 per share was declared, and a vote of thanks car-
'ed to Mr. Stanistreet, the able secretary of the company.
SELECT VESTRY.—The Select Vestry met on Tuesday.

In the meantime all was terror or despair on board the
ill-fated vessel. While the greater part of the ship was a
perfect volcano, the small quantity of gunpowder below
exploded, and the masts, one after another, crashed, and
fell overboard. This served to increase the flames, and
the remainder of the passengers took refuge at the head
of the ship. The heat at the time was most intense • but
the poor creatures watched with an anxiety perfectly'fear-
ful the approach of a sail. It was the Queen of the Ocean,
Mr. Thos. Littledale's • yacht. There were on board, in
addition to the crew, Mr. Littledale himself, Mr. Aspinal
Tobin, Mr. Aufrere, of Windermere, Sir Thomas Hes-
keth, (the high sheriff,) and his chaplain. When about
three miles distant, they saw the Ocean Monarch with all
sails set. In a moment, to their surprise, she seemed to
change her course, and appeared as if about to return to
Liverpool. The cause of this movement soon became
apparent. Smoke-was seen to issue from the vessel, and
the fire soon after became visible. They bore down upon
her, and as they approached her, the flames showed them-
selves several feet above the deck. The cries of distress
reached them at a considerable distance, and the poor
wretches on the wreck swarmed like bees about the head
of the vessel.

s occupicd 1

The total number sick in the house was stated to be 458.
Mr. Steains sent in a letter tendering his resignation as a
on account of his health. The affairs of Nel-
late collector, it appeared were under examina-
e Vestry having taken legal advice on the subject,
id applied to counsel for an opinion from which it was
expected they would b 3 able to prosecute the defaulter.
William George, jun. and bis wife were elected to the
situations of book-keeper, store-keeper, and porteress at
the Industrial School. The Medical Relief Committee
reported the resignation of Dr. Torbuck, who requested
that Mr. Kelly might be appointed, be having engaged to
pay Dr. Torbuck a certain sum of money advanced by
himself. This arrangement was declined. On the sub-
ject of cholera the Rector said they were informed that,
should we be visited with it, Liverpool was better pre-
pared than when it was last here. He did not think
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as any cause for alarm

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.-Amory.st the bills
ordered for payment was one of £704 4s. 16d., for extra
watching at the docks, from the 14th of March to the 11th
of April, and from the 12th of July to the Ist of August.
The Chairman stated that this sum, with what had already
been paid, would make a total of £llOO with which the
surveyor's department of the Dock Estate had been taxed
in consequence of the recent apprehended disturbances.
Mr. Henderson said that great expense had also been in-
curred by the shipowners in extra watching.—An applica-
tion was made from the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, for
the use.of the life boats on the occasion of the approaching
regatta, the applicants to pay the men. The committee
viewed the application favourably, and it was left in the
hands of the sub-committee.—It was reported that on
Tuesday last two flats with lighted fires on board, passed
through the cut from the canal into the docks, and that
the captain's stated that they were ignorant of any regula-
tion to the contrary. Public notice was ordered to be
given of the regulation for preventing -fires on board of

The Ocean Queen is a fine stout yacht, and was pro-
vided with a capacious boat. Mr. Littledale and Mr.
Tobin directed all their bands to lower the boat, and pull
off to the rescue, they themselves managing the yacht in
the meantime. The sea was too rough for her to attempt
boarding the burning ship. The men in the boat did
their work nobly. They took from the wreck, or near
her floating about, thirty-two persons, amongst whom
was Capt. Murdoch—nearly exhausted. The yacht was
nearly an hour at the wreck before any other assistance
arrived. The Affonso, Brazilian steam-frigate, out on a
trial trip, and having on board the Prince de Joinville,
the Duke and Dachess d'Aumale, the Brazilian Minister,
Admiral Grenfell, and others of distinction, afterwards
went up to the assistance of the unfortunates. She was
followed by the New World, another emigrant vessel, and
the Prince of 'Wales steamer. Noble exertions followed.
All the boats were got quickly into operation ; the first
mate of the Ocean Monarch exerted himself successfully,
every one seems to have done his duty ; and above all, a
gallant seaman—whether a British or an American sailor
signifies nothing—braved the last .-h .opr

vessels in the docks. —The receipts of dock and light dues
at the port of Runcorn for the past month were stated to
be on 242 vessels, of 12,709 tons, £53 Os. 9d.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the meeting on Thursday,
the following returns of deaths were read :
Parish of Liverpool. Extra-parochial Wards.
This week. Last week. This week. Last week
. 161 184 52 57
10 11 0 1
28 23 10 12
11 45 12 12

nearly a score of human beings from instant death. His
name is Jerome. In order to do this he denuded himself
of every stitch of clothes; and his conduct won the ap-
plause of the Prince de Joinville,—a good judge of a sailors
courage.

I All causes
Fever....

Scarlatina

1 Total deaths

At Three o'clock in the afternoon, the last person on
board was taken off, and Mr. Littledale's yacht sailed for
the Mersey ; the Affonso followed ; the New World and
the Prince of Wales pursued their course, and the Liver
steam-tug remained until midnight. wlip.nn
of the Ocean M.-- '

this week, 213

, week, 241 de-
crease, 28.—The opinion of Mr. previous
Cowling, barrister,; had
been taken as to interments in pits, &c. It was the opi-
nion of the learned counsel that the magistrates had pro-
' perly declined in the case of St. Patrick's burial-grour
g but that th

...ionarch sunk, the lurid glare of the fire
disappearing in the gurgle of the water.
The following are the heads of " narratives" of the
disaster from the captain, the surgeon, and others who
were on board the ill-fated vessel.

The captain, after substantially confirming the preced-
ing portion of the above account, states that in five
minutes after the fire manifested itself the after part of
the ship burst into flames. "The fire produced the ut-
most confusion amongst the passengers—all appeared in-
fatuation and despair,--yells and screams of the most
horrifying description were given—all control over them
was lost ; my voice could not be heard nor my orders
obeyed. The passengers crowded in numbers to the bow-
sprit to avoid the heat of the flames ; many, in alarm and
despair, leaped overboard, and, although spars and loose
materials lying about deck were thrown out for them to
cling to, a great majority of them were drowned."
Two boats were got out, but before the lashings of the
others could be cut they were enveloped in flames. He
also states that, " Seeing our disaster, the Queen of the
Ocean yacht, owned by Thomas Littledale, Esq., of Liver-
pool, with a party of his friends on board, bore down to
us, lowered her boat, and the crew, with indefatigable ex-
ertions, were the means of saving the lives of 32. In the
meantime, while the yacht was rendering every assistance
in her power, the Brazilian war steamer Affonso, and the
Prince of Wales steamer, bound to Bangor, with the pac-
ket-ship New World, sent their boats, and were the means
of saving many that were clinging to the wreck, and float-
ing about on the spars; their exertions were great and
praiseworthy. The Queen of the Ocean remaind along-
side till three o'clock, and when she had done all that it
was possible to do, set sail for Liverpool. Mr. and Mrs.
Dow, of Glasgow, Mr. Southworth, and Mr. Fellowes, are
amongst the cabin passengers whom I know to have been
saved."

The fire was instantaneous, and in five minutes after it
was discovered the after-part of the ship was in flames
He concludes by

"There were, I calculate, about 390 souls altogether on
bOard, but as we had not completed our classifying ar-
rangements, the exact numbttr I cannot positively tell.
There were, I think, 31 first and second cabin, and 317
steerage passengers; the crew consisted of 42 hands, in-
cluding myself."

The mate of the ship has also penned a narrative nearly
to the same effect, the greatest praise being given to those
on board the Ocean Queen, the Affonso, and the Prince of
Wales. He escaped in one of the boats, which he had cut
adrift from the wreck. He says,—" That being without
oars she drifted, with 13 persons in the boat, four miles to
leeward, when a sloop picked them up, and with four
hands, having procured oars, he pulled for the ship, and
picked up in the way a passenger who was clinging to a
life buoy. The boats of the Affonso were out, the admiral
in one of them, using the most heroic efforts to save life.
There were also two boats from the New World, and
others from other ships. At this time all the masts were
gone, all the deck abaft the forecastle in flames, and fire
bursting in holes through the side. There were about
100 of the passengers about the jibboorn and the head.
They were screaming deliriously, and a number of dead
bodies were floating about. We at once attempted to de-
liver the people from the head, but there was great diffi-
culty in approaching her. After some time we were enabled
to rescue three, one man and two women, from the rigging
under the bows ; soon after I succeeded in rescuing a wo-
man and a child, but the child died in the boat almost in-
stantly. The Prince of Wales could not approach, but
sent her boats out." She furnished Wm with more oars
and men, and he saved two persons, and might have saved
many more but they refused to lower themselves from the
bow of the burning vessel. He speaks highly of a man
named Frederick Jerome, who stripped himself, and by
means of a line rescued 15 of the passengers, at great risk
of his own life. He then proceeds to say," Previous to
this the other boats had rescued many, but still several
individuals had fallen over while endeavouring, probably,
to escape from the heat, or to reach the boats. Many
were drowned. The whole of the upper deck was burnt
off, and the fire was bursting through the sides down to the
water's edge. Jerome having lowered down the last per-
son, a man, he descended, and we put him on board the
Prince of Wales, as well as the remainder of the pas-
sengers. I went on board the Affonso, where I expe-
rienced congratulations and every kindness. The Prince

DESTRUCTION OF THE EMIGRANT SHIP
" OCEAN MONARCH" BY FIRE, AND LOSS
OF NEARLY TWO HUNDRED LIVES.

An awful catastrophe occurred to an emigrant ship
bound from this port to New York, on Thursday last,
shortly after she had left the Mersey. The Ocean
Monarch had on board 28 first and second-class cabin
passengers, 322 steerage passengers, and 46 men con-
stituting the crew, including officers. She was one of the
Boston liners, and belonged to Messrs. Enoch, Train,
and Co., of Boston. She was chiefly laden with iron, and
was commanded by Captain Murdoch, a gentleman of
unquestionable experience and nautical skill. She started
at daylight in the morning, in tow of a steam tug, and
made good progress. The steamer left her to work her
own way about eight o'clock, and with a fresh breeze she
proceeded to sea. The wind being in q direction that
required tacking, the order to "'bout ship," as she
neared the land, about six miles on this side of Great
Ormshead, was given ; and when her head was put to
seaward, the alarm of fire immediately followed. Smoke
was seen to issue from a ventilator, near the after part of
the vessel. The captain, who was on deck, sent some of
the crew below to ascertain the cause, and at first con-
cluded that some of the steerage passengers had been

smoking, but one of the crew observed that some one

must have lighted a tire in the ventilator w men passea
through the captain's private cabin), mistaking it for a
chimney. This, however, is quite uncertain. Before the
origin of the fire could be ascertained, the fire manifested
itself. The flames proceeded from the storeroom, and,
from "tlnftivnefibl. rlnflll•ck of PVl.PralPfl

with an extraordinary and frightful rapidity, owing in
some measure to the disordered state of the steerage
deck, for it generally takes a day after sailing before
things can be put in order.
The appearance of the flames caused the utmost con-
fusion ; the passengers rushed to and fro against each
other, and impeded the progress of persons getting on
deck. Children were thrust aside, and women struggled
against men in the general effort for self-preservation. In
the impulse of the moment, those who had money
attempted to save it, and the struggle was to get on deck
with trunks, boxes, clothes, &c. Many were successful,
and several even returned and descended for the purpose
of saving children or getting at their little properties. But
in their endeavour a great number were smothered, for
a dense smoke soon filled every place below deck.

.
The captain, perceiving the imminent danger in which
the lives of all were placed, gave orders to put the vessel

now burst upon deck, in tongues of flame, these orders
fon Id not he , p.,,,ltn,,,,..thanktex-
eiomg forwards. In letting go the anchors, many per-
sons who had got about the cable, or amongst the head-
gearing, or cordage, were carried overboard, and perished,
no one being enabled to rescue them.
The survivors describe the scene at this moment as
truly appalling. Men, women, and children were run-
ning about wildly, screaming and crying ; a crowd got
around the captain and mate, beseeching them to save
them, or reproaching them for what had taken place.
Orders were either not heard, or disobeyed, and the
second mate and some of the crew seeing ruin inevitable,
proceeded to get out the boats. without the captain's order
and against his wishes. The second mate succeeded, and
got into a boat ; the first mate, seeing the second boat in
danger of being swamped, jumped into her and pushed off,
but then discovered that they had no oars. The waves
were running high, and the wind blowing fresh, and they
were driven out to sea. Happily they were picked up by
the Prince of Wales, and Captain Denham, with a prompt
humanity, steered direct for the Ocean Monarch.
After the boats left, the Captain remained on the wreck.
There were several other boats on board, but they were
now unavailable, being enveloped in flames. All his crew
had now left him, with the exception of the carpenter and
three others ; and an instant effort was necessary to pre-
serve their lives. A spar was launched, and some boards,
and lowering themselves down they clung to these. The
captain was in this perilous state in the water for about
twenty minutes, when he was picked up by the yacht
" Ocean Queen."

de join Ville, the commander, and the other persons on
board, gathered around us. There were 139 persons
saved from the *treck on board • many of these were
women and cliiltifett, partially naked. I saw all busy
in clothing and comforting them ; but among the most
zealous, kind, and active were Mr. and Mrs. Lynn, of
the Waterloo Hotel, Who were on board. Mrs. Lynn
went over the poor children, seized them in her arms as
they came on board, dried them, caressed them, and
covered them in the best way she could. Mr. Lynn
supplied the fainting with brandy and wine, and the less
helpless, with hot soups, meats, &c. The conduct of
both was the subject of general admiration, and the poor
poured on' them incessant thanks and prayers. The
Affonso brought us to the. Mersey, and the gentlemen on
board desired us, if we wished, to remain on board all
night."

The mate concludes his narrative without mentioning
the praise bestowed on himself. We understand, how-
ever, that he was highly complimented by the gentlemen
on board the Affonso, and that the passengers pressed
upon him gratefully with " God bleis you !—you have
saved our lives."

Mr. Ellis, surgeon of the Ocean Monarch, acquits the
captain altogether of the culpability which. has been

charged agains

by a contemporary

to do tinder the circumstances

pis opinion,

The captain, in the first

. _
place, took all the necessary steps to cheek the conflagra-
tion, and afterwards behaved with the greatest prompti-
tude; but all his exertions were rendered fruitless by the
confusion produced by the terror which spread among the
passengers. The captain stuck to the ship until the frag-
ments of the blazing mainmast were falling about him ;

he did not leave until it was an impossibility any longer to
stand the heat between the two fires raging fore and aft.
He had great difficulty, in fact, in saving his own life at
last, and he certainly saved the lives of others in his in-
structions to those who hesitated to throw themselves
into the water, and there trust to the spars.—Mr. Ellis
was picked up by a pilot-boat out of one of the Ocean
Monarch's boats (the mate's) almost swamping at the
time by the heavy seas, and was afterwards placed on
board a Wexford smack, the Queen.
Some of the passengers, when rescued, were .perfectly
naked. Mr. Ellis, like the majority of the other passen-
gers, has lost everything by the fire. As a professional
man, his sacrifices are even more to be regretted than
those of others : he has lost his diploma (granted by the
Royal College of Surgeons), all his instruments, books,
&c. Mr. Ellis states that the fire first appeared in the
cabin, and he therefore questions the statement that it

he care

was occasioned by L._ _iessness of an emigrant in the
steerage. Mr. Ellis was_skttingkitfte e,*ilrfaidamt 12
LL 11l
and said that the ship was on fire. A lady, of the name
of Andrews, was in the cabin, also reading, at the same
time ; she was greatly alarmed. He believes that this
unfortunate lady, with her daughter, a child nine veers
old, has been lost. Mr. Andrews, the husband of. this
lady, has been saved. At the time the fire broke out, a
great number of the emigrants were lying sea-sick in their
berths, and he attributes the subsequent confusion to the
alarm prodwed by these running naked on deck. In this
way many of the children were lost. The tug-boat, which
took them out of the river, had not left them half an hour,
when the first smoke was seen : had she stayed a little
while longer with them, every human being would have
been saved.

The Prince of Wales steamer arrived from the wreck at
this port at five in the afternoon. She had saved a great
number of persons, but had transhipped the whole of
them but fourteen on board the Affonso frigate. They
spoke in high terms of the kindness with which thay had
been treated on board the Prince of Wales ; and we are
gratified to announce, that a subscription, set on foot at
Menai Bridge, on their behalf, realised, in a very short
period, upwards of £6O.

The following statement is from Captain G. Dani, of
the City of Dublin Company's steamer Prince of Wales,
who, seeing the distressed situation of the Ocean Monarch
while on his passage from this port to Beaumaris, in
the most praiseworthy manner bore down towards her.
and was happily the means of saving the lives of a large
number of the passengers. After the gallant captain and
his crew had rendered all the assistance in their power,
and had seen the last of the people taken from the wreck,
the steamer, having some of the people on board who
were saved by their humane exertions, proceeded to her
destination, where she arrived itt eight o'clock :

•
" When outside the Light-ship T discovered a ship on
fire, bearing about twelve miles N.W. I immediately
hauled up for her, and ordered one of the boats to be
got ready. In going along I discovered a boat with four
hands in it. I took her in tow, and in a short time after
saw a man floating on part of the wreck. I sent a boat to
pick him up, and got him on board. At this time there
was a great deal of the wreck floating about. I lowered
my boat, and sent Mr. Batty (the mate) and Three hands
to see if they could pick up any one alive. As Mr. Batty
was going into the boat he discovered the body of a child,
not quite dead, but it was too far gone to recover. I
then proceeded to the ship on fire, and got three more
passengers that were floating. When I came up to the
ship she was in one flame from fore to aft. 1 did not
think it prudent to go alongside of her, but I came to
anchor close ahead of her. At this time the wind was
increasing, and a heavy sea running, and so much of the
wreck hanging about the vessel the boats could not ap-
proach her with safety. I then got the passengers to
assist to weigh my anchor, and returned to pick up my
own boat. I then returned to the ship, and saw from
twenty to thirty people under the bowsprit of the ship.
I then came to anchor close on her starboard bow, and
got lines attached to the boats and saved every one that
was left on the wreck. At this trying moment Mr. Batty
was of the greatest service to me, as well as all the other
hanrl." -3 ___it'___.i_- • I .

they could

The following account of the frightful occurrence is
from a passenger on board the Prince of Wales :
" About twelve o'clock at noon, when opposite Point
of Ayr, I got the telescope to take a survey of the coast,
and, turning to the sea, I saw a cloud of smoke, which
struck me as coming from a steamer firing up ; but, as it
continued for some time with the same feature, I thought
that it might be a ship on fire. I went to Captain Dani,
and, on his looking at it, he declared it to be so, and im-
mediately bore down towards her. She then might be
about four miles off. On nearing her a couple of miles,
I was on the forecastle looking out. and heard a ery • a•,•-•••

a man attached to a life buoy,. the boat was got dovin., and
he was picked up ; and a child floated past, which was
also picked up, but dead ; floating cabbages and pieces of
wreck came next, and then—aborrible sight !—bodies of
men and women, just under Me surface of the water, all
the way to the burning ship, which was at anchor.
" The Brazilian frigate Affonso was anchored a little
distance from her, and rendering every assistance with
the boats. On our coming up on her larboard bow, to
our horror it was crowded with poor wretches—men,
women- d

_,,wren—hanging to ropes, spars, and the
wreck of the foremast, crying most piteously to be saved
from their frightful position, the awful element fire lite-
rally chasing them into the equally destructive one water,
which was very rough, causing the vessel to surge ten or
twelve feet at every heave, continually immersing those
who had slid down the hanging wreck of ropes and sails,
on the chance of being taken off by the boats, which, un-
fortunately, dare not approach for fear of being swamped.
Then came a sight, sickening and never to be forgotten :
they one by one dropped off into the water, unable to hold
on any longer, either from the heat or from exhaustion,
we and the boats looking on, unable to render help further
than picking those up who were bold enough to jump.
"At length some twelve or fourteen were all that re-
mained ; the sea got.. urn. •

Tince of Wales)- went ahead of her, and dropped her
anchor, letting her drop down as near as possible. A
ropy was then passed by a boat from us and eased away
to the wreck; then a man, a credit to humanity, a sailor
from the skip New. World, which was ffninv mit to saa

stripped, and took a rope round his body, climbed up to
the bowsprit, and, amidst encouraging cheers from all
about, slung them one by one into the boat, and by that
means saved the lives of one man, aged seventy, four
women, and five or six children, the last on the fatal ship.
All that I saw saved were of the lowest class of Irish and
the manufacturing districts of Lancashire."
It is stated that one female was thrust overboard by
another woman who was frantic; that she came in con-
tact with another female in a dying state, and who, when
she breathed her last in the water, formed a buoy, by
clinging to which the survivor was saved. This appears
to be rather problematical.

All the survivors who were taken on board the Affonso
speak in the warmest terms of praise of her noble com-
mander, and of her most benevolent crew. Everything
that that frigate had on board was liberally and bounti-
fully supplied to them. Biscuit and bread, meat and
vegetables, brandy and wine, all were handed about with
unbounded profusion • -- I we need

, ant. scarcely say that these
esculents and drinkables were most acceptable to the
wretched sufferers, all of whom were Breached with wet,
yet parched with thirst, and most of whom were literally
in a state of nudity. And, talking of nudity, this most
humane crew supplied to the best of their ability, the
wants of the survivors, in this respect. To one they gave
a coat, to another trousers, and to another a shirt, until
at length, in this way, every one brought on board the
frigate had some essential requisite of clothing supplied.
Many of the survivors are to proceed to their destina-
tion in the United States by the Hope, appointed to sail
yesterday. Many were, however, so terrified that they
decline proceeding, and have had their passage money re-
turned. The passage money amounted in the aggregate
to about £l3OO. The fare in the first cabin was £2O ; in
the second, £l2 ; in the state-room, £5 ; steerage, first
deck, £4 ; second deck, £3 10s.

The following is said to be the number of persons on
board the Ocean Monarch, together with the number of
those saved and unaccounted for :

ON BOARD

Steerage

Second cabin
First

Crew .
Doctor

Queen of the Ocean
Affonso
Smack
Prince of Wales ..

32
156
13
17

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The captain has published a idler thanking the gentle-
men on board the yacht for their extraordinary exertions,
and expressive of his admiration of the skilful and sea-
manlike manner in which the Queen of the Ocean was
handled.
The sympathy shown to the poor creatures is creditable
to all concerned. Mr. Lynn, who was on board the Bra-
zilian frigate, as caterer to the distinguished party,yro-
vided them with soup and other necessaries.
A number of policemen's top coats, and other articles
of wearing apparel, were sent from the Dock Police-office,
for the use of the unfortunate people, as they were landed
from the pierhead, from the different vessels which con-
veyed them into port.
The same spirit of humanity towards the survivors per-
vades all classes. Mr. Baker, the comedian, suggests a
benefit play at the Theatre-Royal, which will take place
on Thursday evening, when the amatuers who appeared
a year ago in the Twelfth Night, will again perform that
piece. The Brunswick Club purposes getting up an ama-
teur performance at the Royal Amphitheatre; and Mr-
B. R. Isaac has announced the diverting the proceeds of
his own Grand Concert, to come off this evening, to the
same benevolent cause. When we consider the very 4e-

pressed state of the times amongst all classes, we are in-
clined to say (as Cowper said of "England" at large)►
"Liverpool, with all thy faults, we love thee still."
In order to ascertain the number of survivors as nearly

as possible, a meeting of them was summoned, on Sun-
day, at Messrs. Harnden's office. Nearly 150 drew up,
and although clothing had been provided for many, a
majority of the poor creatures were in the most pitiable
and destitute condition. One poor woman who was
present had lost not less than five of her children. The
passengers were teken to the police-office, where clothing
was provided for them.
Several of the unhappy beings are in the Northern
Hospital, with fractured limbs and other injuries. ManY
of them are suffering severely from the long immersion
in the water. Some of the invalids were conveyed to the
Birkenhead hospital.
The members of the bar, still on circnt, at once got UV
a subscription, and raised in a few hours £l4O.
The stewardess lost her life in courageously attempting
to get the powder out of the cabin. She was forced back
by the fumes, and fell dead on reaching the deck. The
powder exploded with a report like that of a cannon.
- The vessel continued to burn until one o'clock on Fri-
day morning. One person on board lost his wife and
child, and £BOO. It appears from the latest conjectures
that the fire was not first seen in the cabin, and there was
no smoke there, and that it first showed itself near the
steering-wheel, where the store-room is situated. Mr-
by the A ffonsop
alter wing long in the water, and drivel by the waves
from spar to spar.

A young man named Thompson, a seaman belonging to
Liverpool, seeing the danger, jumped in the water, with
his child tied on his back, and held on by the chain cabler
also supporting his wife, who was also in the water. After
the lapse of an hour and a half the child was washed awaY,
and the wife soon shared the same fate. The young marl
was saved.

Censure has been cast upon the commanders of the.
Cambria and Orion, whose steam-vessels passed in sight of
the ship. The charge is a serious one ; and it were
wrong to give it credence until an investigation of the ease.
take place. It is stated, that not knowing the extent of
the calamity, and seeing (in the distance) other vessels,
and a number of boats round the ship, they did not deep
their assistance necessary. The captain of the Cambria
says that he had only as much coal as would take him to.
Liverpool, and that he did not know she was an emigrant
ship. He had also two hundred passengers on board, and
his decks were completely crowded with live stoek, which
would have rendered it difficult to have rendered assist-
ance, with such a heavy sea running. His coals would
have run out, and he mvst have remained at an-
chor, which would have placed his vessel in great danger,
had it come on to blow. Captain Murdoch also acquits
the captains of these steam-vessels of all blame. He says
it would have taken an hour and a half after the was dis-
covered by them for them to have reached the Ocean
Monarch.

In the House of Commons, on Saturday, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer promised that the fullest enquiry
should take place into the circumstances. Mr. Hume
alluded to the Cambria and Orion having passed the ship ;
and trusted that Jerome, who had saved seventeen lives,
would be adequately rewarded.

The melancholy catastrophe was improved from the
pulpits of most of the churches, and in several, collections
were made in aii. of the unfortunate suffer era.
The United States Consul has addressed a letter of
thanks to the gentlemen on hoard the frigate and the
yacht.

The Prince de Joinville left £lO for two seamen on
board the frigate, wh) exerted themselves courageously
during the dreadful scene. The Brazilian minister left
£lOO for the crew of that vessel, but on Sunday, when
this fact was communicated to them, they refused to
receive tho money, and wished it to be handed to the
surviving sufferers. When only a dozen helpless women
and children remained on the burning wreck, paralyzed
with fear and totally incapable of helping themselves by
descending from the tottering bowsprit to the boats which,
in the midst of the heavy sea and wreck, in vain offered
their assistance below, the seaman, Jerome. stripped him-
self naked, made his way through the sea and wreck, and
with a line in his hand, succeeded in lowering the last
helpless victims safely into the boats, being himself the
last man to leave the wreck. On his arrival on board the
Brazilian steam-frigate Affonso, he was received on the
quarter-deck by the Prince de Joinville and the Duke
d'Aumale, who, shaking him by the hand, praised his
gallantry in the most flattering terms, bestowing on him
an ample gratuity. The blackened mast and some of the

_
spars of the unfortunate ship, with portions of the rig-
ging attached, were towed into the river on Friday night,
by one of the steam-tugs which found them floating near
the spot where the remains of the vessel went down. They
were floated into the Prince's Basin, where they remain.
'
Mr. Baker, the cotnedian, was not a passenger by the
Ocean Monarch, as stated by a contemporary.
The lady of Admiral Grenfell took charge of a child
which was rescued from the burning ship. It has since
been claimed by a Mrs. Romer, who lies at the Northern
Hospital. The meeting between the mother and child
was most affecting, the poor woman having lost all hopes
of ever seeing it again. The poor child had the horrors
-` " .

or use scene so strongly impressed on its mind, that during
sleep, it was evidently, in imagination again amid the ter-
rors from which it had been rescued, frequently starting,
screaming, and muttering exclamations of alarm.
The Journal says :—On Friday we visited Regent-street
and the other streets lying at the north end of the town,
where the unfortunate survivors have taken up their tem-
porary residences. Never did we witness such squalid
masses of human beings as these survivors present. Most
of them are women, some with burns on their necks and
shoulders, produced by 0- ----

uiazi..g masts and timbers,
and others with black eyes and contused wounds upon
various parts of their persons, caused by frequent surges
on the tops of the waves against broken spars and the hull
of the burning vessel.

The Skerryiore steam-tug arrived on Saturday morning
from the scene of the late disaster with five bodies (two
women, one man, and two children,) and a quantity of
spars, sails, &c., belonging to the ship. The bodies bad
been previously picked up by boatmen, and when brought
to Liverpool were placed in the house appropriated for the
unclaimed dead, at the south end of the Prince's Dock.
There were several bruises and cuts on the heads and faces
of the bodies, and one of the children had apparently been
scorched.

INDIAMAN BY

The case of the destruction of the " Kent," by fire, in
the Bay of Biscay, on the 28th February, 1827, bears con-
siderable analogy to that of the loss of the Ocean Monarch,
although the mortality was not nearly so great, that we
supply a few of the facts, by way of historical reminis-
cence. The Kent, a fine new ship, of 1,350 tons, (only
50 tons more than the Ocean Monarch,) commanded by
Captain Henry Cobb, left the Downs on the 19th Febru-
ary of the year stated, bound for Bengal and China. She
had a crew of 148 men, including her officers ; and 20
officers, 344 soldiers, 43 women, and 66 children, belong-
ing to the 31st regiment; also 20 private passengers, mak-
ing a total of 641 souls. The Oepnn h.rl cdl

= vt.crau luunarcri 1150 1 0
on board 398, being 243 short of the number in the Kent.
On the night of the 28th February, when the-Kent was
in latitude 470 30u, longitude 100, a gale came on from
the west, which gradually increased till the morning.
About midnight the vessel rolled alarmingly. Shortly be-
fore this an officer, with the well-meant intention of as-
certaining that all was right below, went into the hold,
with two sailors, carrying with them a light in a patent
lantern ; but seeing that it burnt dimly, the officer hands
it up to the orlop deck_ to be trimmed. He afterwards

discovered that one of the spirit casks was adrift, and sent
the seamen for some billets of wood to secure it. In their
absence the vessel made a larch, the officer unfortunately
dropped the lamp and,: in endeavouring to recover it, let
go the cask, when it was suddenly stove, and the spirits-
communicating with the light the whole was instantly in
a blaze.
As the spot was surrounded by water-casks, they hoped
the fire might be extinguished, but it soon gained head,
and, succeeded by dense volumes of smoke, ascended all:
the four hatchways. The cry soon was that the flames
had reached thercable tier, and little hope was entertained
of preserving the vessel. The alarm and horror on board
became intense. With great presence of mind the cap-
tain ordered, the lower deck to be scuttled, and the lower
ports to be opened to admit the waves. The sailors and
soldiers speedily obeyed, but could not until several per-
sons, sick soldiers, women, and children had perished
from suffocation. After this there seemed but a choice
of death—by fire, or by water. The scene was dreadful.
The upper decks were covered with between 600 and 700
beings, many of them from sea-sickness and alarm almost
naked. An explosion of the magazine was almost mo-
mentarily expected. The captain ordered the vessel to
be scuttled forward to draw the fire in that direction, as..
between it and the magazine there were several tiers of
water casks. The cries, the prayers of the helpless were.
meantime heartrending, while others fell into the stupor of
despair. At last the joyful announcement was made font
the fore-top that a sail was bearing down, and she proved
to be the Cambria, a brig of 200 tons burthen, Captain
Cook, bound to Vera Cruz. The boats of the Kent were
got out, and the females placed in them first, and their
conduct was that of perfect resignation, for they were yet_
in imminent peril. A number of extraordinary escape!
218 were made from yawning death. Several soldiers Pe
To account for ..
several of the latter were drowned in the transit. The
CABIN PASSENGERS.—Mr. and Mrs. Dow ; Mr. means of rescue taken by Captain Cobb and all the brave
Southworth ; Thomas Henry ;J. K. Fellowes, and Mr. Gregg,—all of whom are said to have been saved. fellows around were fearless for themselves, and all that
, humanity could dictate for others. Considering the na-
SECOND CLASS CABIN PASSENGERS.—Mr. James Sid- ture of the circumstances comparatively few lives were
dall, Maine ; Mrs. Howard and child, England ; Mrs. lost. The captain was the last to escape, and at great
Reynolds ; Mrs. Roper and two children •, Miss Maria peril. The congratulation of friends and relatives on
Bunning ; Mrs. Shaw ; Mr. H. Powell, 11r. Bristow ; board the Cambria may be conceived ; and those
on board
her, soon after saw the majestic ship, which had, 'with
o.
Few of the steerage passengers would be known by • them, passed over the waters like a conqueror, become a
Paine here, and we therefore do not publish them. mighty pillar of tire, in the vast desert of the coma;
Mr. Murphy, and four others.