The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-27 00:00:00

Less radicals struck out by their own party

Total loss to the conservatives upon the revision

Lost by the radicals.
Lost by the conservatives

Balance in favour of the conservatives.... 157

DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK.

The Journal du Havre publishes the following distressing
details of the loss of the Leopoldina Rosa, of which only a
very brief notice has been given to the public. They are sup-
plied by a person who was on board :—The Leopoldina Rosa
left Bayonne early in May for Monte Video, having on board,
besides her captain and crew, 303 passengers, men,' women,
and children, nearly all industrious emigrants from the Basque
country, who were on their way to the plains of Uraguay.
After a long passage, and when approaching their destination,
the vessel was assailed by a severe storm, and during the
night was thrown on one of the reefs, called the Castillos, on
the eastern coast of Uraguay, at a distance of about forty
leagues from Monte Video. At daylight, when Captain
Frappaz, the commander of the Leopoldina, could clearly
perceive his situation, it was evident to him that no hope
could be entertained of saving the vessel. His attention was,
therefore, exclusively directed to the crew and passengers.
He first despatched a boat with a rope for the shore, but the
breakers were so high that it foundered immediately. The
men who were in it, however, were able to regain the vessel.
He then desired a sailor, who was a good swimmer, to take
a small rope to the shore, tied tohis body, with the intention,
when landed, of drawing to him a cable attached to the other
end; but, the, man refused, as did also all the other sailors
who were applied to, although the lives of more than 300
Passengers might have been saved by this act of courage.
At length the crew, with the exception of only three men,
made arrangements for their own safety by means of spars,
&c., leaving the captain, lieutenant, the doctor, the steward,
and all the passengers to their fate. Thus abandoned, and
taking counsel from despair, the most vigorous threw them•
selves into the sea, but they were nearly all dashed against
, the rocks and drowned. Most of those who remained on
board were either deterred kora following the example of
those who had plunged into the sea, by seeing assembled
there an immense number of those wretches the Gauchos,
who watch the wrecks on the coast for the purposes of pil-
lage, and massacre those who offer resistance; or they were
parents whose feelings would not allow them to abandon
their offspring. As the day wore, the tempest increased in
violence, and the waves swept the deck with fury. All who
remained on board sought refuge on the poop or in the cabin,
where they were huddled up awaiting death, and having for
consolation only the cheering words of the captain, who from
time to time visited them, and bade them hope for a change
in their favour. Captain Frappaz never abandoned the hope
of safety ; and, watching the horizon, predicted that the
storm would subside with the setting of the sun, as it really
dal; but, unfortunately, although the sea in the offing be-
e une comparatively calm, the breakers at the same time be-
came much more violent.

During the whole of this terrible day the Leopoldina re-
sisted the fury of the waves, but towards five o'clock in the
afternoon the stern cave way, and was separated from the
body of the vessel. The scene now became dreadful. More
than sixty persons who were standing on the poop when this
calamity occurred were in a moment cast into the sea, and
nearly all of them, men, women, and children, were drowned.
Night now came on, and the waves from time to time swept
away several of the poor wretches who were on the portion
of the vessel which remained above waser. The longboat,
which had up to this time been preserved, and which had
offered a last chance of escape, was carried away and dashed
to pieces. This was followed almost immediately by the
separation of the remaining part of the hull of the Leopoldina,
and all who were.on it had no other chance of avoiding death
than graiping the planks and sustaining themselves fora time
upon them. Only the most robust, however, were able to
avail themselves of this succour. Those poor creatures who
were denied this chance sunk almost immediately, and of
the number who had profited by it, several wereforced off
by the waves and drowned ; others expired from exhaustion
or injury as they touched the shore. 231 passengers pe-
rished, 72 escaped as by miracle. These were protected from
the brutality of the Gauchos by the firmness of Don Vicente
Acosta and Don Natalio Molina, who were on the spot to
render assistance. The survivors were subsequently taken
on board the French schooner L'Eclair, where they were
treated with great kindness. Among the sufferers was the
captain of the Leopoldina, who remained with his vessel
until she went entirely to pieces, when, seizing a plank, he
endeavoured to reach the shore, but was dashed against the
•rocks and killed.

BLUCHER.—HeWas braveaia lion, an adroit and ready
tactician, and, as Bonaparte observed of the British soldierv,
never knew when he was beaten enough. " His jests," says the
Quarterly Review, " frequently of a description ill calculated
for chaste ears, extorted grim smiles from lips black with the
cartridge, and sent laughter through the column, while grape
shot was tearing its ranks. When he checked his horse in
the hottest cannonades to light his pipe at the linstock of the
gunner, the piece was, probably, not the worst served. To..
wards the close of the campaign in France, the infirmities of
age at one moment almost induced him to contemplate the
abandonment of his command, and to retire into the Nether-
lands ; but the spirit triumphed over the flesh, and, though
unable to remain in the saddle for the last attack on Mont-
martre, he gave his orders with calmness and precision from
a carriage. His appearance on this occasion must have
taxed the gravity of his staff, for, to protect his eyes, then in
a state of violent inflammation, the grisly veteran had replaced
his cocked-hat by a French lady's bonnet and veil!"
A. lIRATHEN HOSPITAL.—The Rev. Mr. Allen, an
American missionary, in giving details concerning the vari-
ous public institutions in Bombay, thus notices what
every one must regard as a most singular establishment :
"It has been said that heathenism never furnished a
hospital. There is at least one exception to the truth
of this remark. There is one here, supported at an expense
of 16,000 dollars annually. It was founded by donation
of 100,000 dollars, by a native merchant of the Jain
sect—the sect which appears to approach nearer than
any other to the primitive Hindooism, with which Py-
thagoras became acquainted at Babylon. Its doctrines
strictly forbid the destruction of animal life, in any
case whatever. The management of this hospital is wholly
in heathen hands, and heathen liberality furnishes all its re-
sources. In it are gratuitously supported from 50 to 100 old
horses, which would otherwise be killed as past service ;
about 175 cows and oxen ; 200 dogs, for whose destruction
the authorities of Bombay offer a bounty twice a year ; and a
a large number of cats. monkeys, and other animals. Its
charities are accessible to living beings of every species except
the human race. Men, women, and children, wounded,
sick, and destitute, are allowed to die unaided within sight
of its wails. Such is the character of the only hospital, so
far as is known, that heathenism ever built-4441y Kong
Gazette.