The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-21 00:00:00

ter's edge, that it was a mercy it reached the shore in
Nothing but constant baling and good management
er afloat.

course, lost, and, in fact,
- everything belonging to the vessel. Sunk as she is in 13
fathoms, and most likely so much injured by striking so hard
as she did on the shoal, it is not at all probable the vessel

The whole of t

he mails are, o

will be ever raised.
It is a singular fact that Mr. Edward Dicker, the surgeon,
was also wrecked in the Medina, and afterwards in the Isis,
and now the poor fellow, in the prime .of life, is, without
warning, and in an awful manner, called to his account by

is a singular cir-
cumstance, but which shows a melancholy foreboding, that
Capt. Duncan, immediately he heard of Mr. Dicker's ap-
pointment to the Solway, remarked, half jesting, that if
any harm came to him or his ship he should attribute it to
Mr. Dicker's presence, that gentleman [having ,met with
such unfortunate results.

(From Mr. Lane's Narrative.).
says that at the time he got on deck the female
were all there, expecting the ship to go down
. She had still good way upon her, the engines
aving apparently suffered no injury—when, while proceeding
towards the shore as described above, a general rush was
was made to the pinnace, which hung at the davits on the
arboard side. Twenty-five persons got into her, and having
ated themselves, cried out to those on board to "lower
" Captain Duncan, who evidently foresaw the great
.der of lowering the boat while the vessel was proceeding
at full speed, endeavoured to prevent this, but the confusion
was so great on hoard, and his own labours so entirely de-
voted to the great object of getting the paddle life-boats
afloat, and making the shore, that his opposition was of no
tohtugr e e
avail, and the forward tackle ;was let by the run, and the
bows of the boat dropped in the water. The situation of the
poor wretches who had made this their hope of escape, was
now perilous in the extreme. A cry of, " For Gull's sake
let go the after-tackle," was answered by some of the crew as
as possible, and the pinnace fell into the water. The
soon
had still full speed upon her, and a heavy sea struck the
,oat as she floated for an instant, and swept every soul into
he water. One or two sailors only, who hung on to the
tickle, suoceeded in again reaching the vessel. Ten minutes
- - had now elapsed since the vessel first struck, during
very exertion had been made by the officers of the
~rth Captain Duncan at their hand, to get the larboard
-boat afloat. While thus engaged the boilers suddenly
collapsed,
and an immense quantity of steam, dust, ashes,
,triod h
flailes burst from the engine-room. All on board
ht that the vessel was now about to blow up, and two
persons were so much alarmed as to jump overboard.
The water
had now reached the tires, and the ship, it was
(Duncane evident, could not float many minutes longer. Captain
'S-and the other officers now handed the passengers
. .

Mr. Lan

instantly

hich !

Ito the life-boat, exerting themselves to the utmost to save
11 the female passengers. Fifty-two persons were already
n the boat, and Captain Duncan was still handing in others,
vben a general cry rose of " She is going!" find -;--*

le went down bend-foremost. leaving
alf tilled with water, afloat. This fact

undantly sufficient to swamp a boat

n a rni..
bis period

the snit" 7-- --
The Tunes says that " the loss, which will fall upon the
insurers in London and Glasgow, is estimated at £lO,OOO.
The difference between this sum and £60,000, which, in
numbers, is stated to be about the value of the vessel,
round
including, all the property she had on board, will constitute
another item of loss in the accounts of the company, who
--.r to have had a most unfortunate career since they corn-

The non-insurance to the full amount,
fault of the directors, the terms of their
n to take a portion of the risk on all their

lding t

Of the £40,000, about ;C30,000 is distributed among
the London offices, the underwriters at Lloyds having for-
•ritling damage. Glasgow suffers

_itely escaped with very
tilt, extent of about 1:11

rHE BISHOP OF JE'RUSALENI.—The Rev. J. W. Ayre,
Wellenborough has addr,,ssed a letter to the Editor,
ct of Dr. Bowrinzs remarks on the
nt of the Bishop, and

(3f the Times on t
House of Commons on the appoint

hich the Bishop ar-
Ilso mixed much amongst the Christian, Jewish
lhabitants. Of the treatment of the
Of the Cbristians, the Roman Catho-
Ile Greek, Armenian, and Syrian
y friendly spirit—a feeling which is
the tenets of Church of England
flown. The Greek church holds
cv of its bishops merely as a point
s permitted to the priest),
) should be married is a

d Aids!

NI aloof

With respect to the Jewish

church

e looked for a deep-
Dr. Alexander. The

stianit

But these hostile feelin

in reality, exist

as an a

yen way to a very ge-

ere talk ; the s

tween t
One w

wished a position. And this
of their good will is proved
friendly intercourse which

f their own suffering

s certainly

ies and Bishop
ence to the Mussultnans. It

ue that it was contrary to all their notions of
that women should go unveiled, and they could not
understand how, w!th such a custom, the modesty of the sex
-Id be preserved. But the amazement with which they
-4, on the unveiled face of Mrs. Alexander and her
--.P way to the most unbounded respect;

Jewiih faro

companions soon ga

so that now t

mortals

Turk actually regards the English

rather than as mere

tenants of the harems are courting the society,
so that,

lually civilized by

LIU uct.v ~
3 fact, much may be expected to result in the end from the
3iluence of the bishop's family."