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

TUB; LIVERPOOL STAINIIARD.

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, SEACOMBE.—In conseqrence of
the difficulty of completing the above 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 deco-
rations are required to complete the building, in accord-
ance with the original design of the architect; the cfrwt
now made will, no doubt, receive a liberal response on the
part of all true friends to the church. Several of the most
influential lathes connected with the district, have
come forward to aid the object; and amongst the early
patronesses are Lady Tobin, Mrs. Byrth, Mrs. H. Little-
. dale, Mrs. Winch, &c., &c. -
LECTURES ON PHYSIOLOGY.—Dr. Pettigrew, of Lon-
don, delivered the first of a course of six lectures at the
Collegiate Institution on this subject, on Friday evening,
which was attended by many of our medical townsmen.
Dr. Pettigrew is a pleasing speaker, adorning his subject
with the graces of language, and treating it in so popuier
a style as to make it understood and admired by persons
of the hunibleet capacity. On Friday evening the lecturer
treated of the brain, and will con'i'tue that branch of the
subject this evening. He has also promised to exhibit
the effects of chloroform on animals this evening. We
cannot doubt but that this course of lectures will be suc-
e soul, and we may add that the present series is the last
D:. Pet l igrew t ter deliver in our town.
'FnE MAILS TO DUBLIN.—A new arrangement for the
transmission of the mails from Dublin to London, via
Liverpool. will come into operation from and after the
Bth of September next. Tice mail packet from Liverpool
will then leave Kingstown pier at 4 30 p.m., instead of at
6 30, as at present. The object of that arrangement is to
ensure the arrival of the mail from Dublin at Liverpool
at such an hour in the morning as to permit it to be for-
warded from the latter
.town to London by the 6 a.m.
express train. It is said that with a view to. this, as well
as other changes, more powerful boats will he put on the
line to Liverpool. All the correspondence between Ire-
land and those places to which Liverpool offers the speedi-
est communication will g:o by this route, all that for Lendon
direct and the places on that line will go rid Holyhead.
Tire MONOMANIAC AT THE ASSIZE COURT.—On
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 conspicu ins part of the court,
arose, and in a determined tone, demanded the learned
judge to restore to her her property. His lordship mil-
-1 ingiy replied, that he came there to try prisoners, and not
to listen to her then. He would listen to her application
at the proper time. " Yes, but," said the old body, " you
are sworn to do your duty, and I demand that you do it
now, and give me my property." The police desired her
to leave the court; and, after 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 hut in a brick-field in Kirkdale. On
searching the hut in question, the officers found part of
she wrappering of another bale. 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 5 n Sunday morning. The
men stated in defence that they had been employed by a
roan 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
are missing.

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

An awful catastrophe occurred to an emigrant ship
hound from this port to New York, on Thursday last,
shortly after she had left the Mersey. The Ocean
Monarch had onboard 28 first and second-class cabin
pa,sengers, 322 steerasze 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 daylieht 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 a direction that
required tacking, the order to " 'bout ship." as she
reared the land, about six miles on this side of Great
Ofmshead, was given ; and when her head was• put to
seaward, the alarm of fire immediately followed. Smoke
was seen to i,7sue 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 fire in the ventilator (which passed
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 ft,mes proceeded from the storeroom, and,
from the eombustible nature of the materials, extended
with an extraordinary and frightful rapieiy, 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-
fu•ion ; 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
aea'nst 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
hetbre the wind and run her on shore; but the fi:v having
now burst upon deck, in tongues of' flame, these orders
could not he complied with. The anchor was then let go,
to bring the ship to the wind, and prevent the flames ex-
tending 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, arid 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 its this perilous state in the water for about
twenty minutes, when he was picked up by the yacht
" Ocean Queen."

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 bolrd, in
addition to the crew, Mr. Littledale himself, Mr. Aspinal
Tobin, Mr. Anfrere, of Windermere, Sir Thomas Hes-
keth, (the high sEeriff.) and his chaplgin. When about
three miles distant, the y 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 digress
reached them at a considerable distance, and the poor
wretches on the wreck swarmed like bees about the head
of the vessel.

The Ocean Queen is a fine stout yacht, and was pro-
vided with a capacious boat. Mr. Littledale and Mr.
Tobin directed all their hands 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 'boot-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 hoard the Prince de Joinville,
the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, the Brazilian Minister,
Admiral Grenfell, and others of distinction, afterwards
went up to the assistaece 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 danger, and rescued
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.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the last person on
board was taken off. and Mr. Littleiale'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, when all that remained
of the Ocean Monarch 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 tnijority 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 hoard, 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 A.ffonso, 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 remain(' 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 saying,—
" There were. I calculate, about 390 souls altogether on
board. but as we had not comp'eted our classifying ar-
rangements, the exact number 1 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
109 of the passengers about the jibboom 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 h'm 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. Ile 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

de Joinville, the commander, and the other persons on
board, gathered around us. There were 139 persons
saved from the wreck on board ; many of these were
women and children, 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, mean s, &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 bless you !—you have
saved our lives."

Mr. Ellis, surgeon of the Ocean Monarch, acquits the
captain altogether of the culpability which has been
charged against him by a contemporary. In his opinion,
the captain and mate did all that it was possible for men
to do under the circumstances. The captain, in the first
place, took all the necessary steps to check 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
pasiengers. 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 tires raging fore and Waft.
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, anti 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- rare 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
was occasioned by the carelessness of an emigrant itr the
steerage. Mr. Ellis was sitting in the cabin reading at 12
o'clock in the day, when the second steward rushed hi
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 years
old, has been lost. Mr. Andrews, the husband of this
lady, nas 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 produced 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
spore in high terms of the kindness with which thay had
been treated on board the Prince of 'Vales; 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 1:69.
The following statement is from Captain G. Dani, of
the City of Dublin Company's steamer Prince of Walos,
who, seeing the distressed situation of the Ocean Monarch
while on bis passage from this port to Beaumaris, in
the most praiseworthy manner bore down towards her.
and was happily the means 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 front 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 at eight o clock :

" When outside the Light-ship I
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 1 discovered a boat with four
hands in it. I took her in toweand in a short time after I
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 pro.l.eeded to the ship on fire, and got three more
passengers that were floating. When I came up to the
,hip 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, anti 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
oNn boat. I then returned to the ship, and saw from
twenty to thirty people under the bowsprit of the ship.
1 then came to anchor close on her starboard bow, and
got lines attached to the boats and saved every one that
was lett on the wreek. At this trying moment Mr. Batty.
was of the grcatout Curvit. tt. %Vt.) I 03 all the- other
hands, who cheerfully and willingly assisted in saving all
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 cry ; saw
a man attached to a life buoy, the boat was got down, 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—horrible sight !—bodies of
men and women, just under the 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, and children—hanging to ropes, spars, and the
wreck of the foremast, crying most piteously to he 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 if 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 a little smoother, and our ship (the
Prince of Wales) went ahead of her, and dropped her
anchOr, letting her drop down as near as possible.. A
ropa was then passed by a boat from us and eased away
to the wreck ; then a man, a credit to humanity, a sai!or.
from the si:ip New World, which was going out to sea,
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 banded about with
unbounded profusion ; and we need scarcely say that these
esculents and drinkables were most acceptable to the
wretched sufferers, all of whom were dree elied 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 gale
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, 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 :

Steerage
Second cabin
First ..
Crew
Doctor .. .

ON BOARD.

SAVED.

Queen of the Ocean .
Affonso
Smack
Prince of Wales

32
156

218
To account for

CABIN PASSENGERS.—Mr. and Mrs. D3W ; Mr.
Southworth ; Thomas Henry; J. K. Fellowes, and Mr.
Gregg,—all of whom are said to have been saved.
SECOND CLASS CABIN PASSENGERS.—Mr. James Sid-
dell, Maine ; Mrs. Howard and child, England ; Mrs.
Reynolds ; Mrs. Roper and two children ; Miss Maria
Bunning ; Mrs. Shaw ; Mr. H. Powell, Mr. Bristow ;
Mr. Murphy, and four others.
Few of the steerage passengers would be known by
Uome here, and we therefore do not publish them.,

August ,‘:9, ig4So

The captain has published a letter 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, pro-.
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 nierhead, from the different vessels which con-
veyed them into port.
The seine 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 de-
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 nue)er of survivors as nearly
as possible, a meeting of them was summoned, on Sun-
day, at Messrs. Ilaruden'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
arid destitute condition. One poor woman who was.
present had lost not less than five of her children. The'
passengers were teken to the poice-olice, 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 bir. still on eircri, at once got up
a subscription, and raised in a tew hours el4lo.
The stewardess lost her life in courageously attempting
to get the powder out of the cabin. She was forced back
b 7 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 month)... 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.
and Mrs. Dow, of Glasgow, were rescued by the Miens°,
after being long in the water, and drive i by the waves
from spar to 'par.
A young man named Thompson, a seaman belonging to.
Liverpool. seeing the danger, jumped in the water, witty
his child tied on his back, and held on by the chain cable,•
also suppor;ing 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 man
was saved.

Censure has been cast upon the commanders of the
Cambria' and Orion, whose steam-vessels Fussed in sight of
the ship. The charge is a serious one; and it were
wrong to give it credence until an investigation of the case
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 deem
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. lie had also two hundred passengers on board, and
his decks were-completely crowded with live stock, 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. lie 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 carestrophe was improved frun the
pulpits of most of the churches, and in several, collections
were made in ait7 of the unfortunate suffe ern.
The United States Consul has addressed a letter of
thanks- to the gentlemen on board 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 1-4
£lOO for the crew of that vessel, but on Sunday, when
this fact was communicated to them, they retuned to
receive the. 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 assCstance 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 wr,'ck. On•his arrival on board the
Brazilian stcam-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 six t :vherethe remains of the vessel went down. They
were floated into the Prince's Basin, where they remain-
Mr. Baker, the comedian, was not a passenger by tne
Ocean Monarch, as stated by a contemporary.
The lady. of Adu iral GrenfelL took charge of a caild
which was rescued from the burning ship. It has since
been claimed by a Mrs. River, who lies at the Northern
Hospital. The meeting between the mAher and child
was most affecting, the poor woman having lost all hopes
of ever seeing it again: The poor child had the horrors
of the 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 the blazing 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 Skerryvore 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, &e., belonging to the ship. The bodies had
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 feces
of the bodies, and one of the children had ap2areutly been
scorched.