Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-03-29
FOREIGN NEWS.

ny lno Drltisn steamer CHledonla, AT Boston on
the goth, Liverpool lapers were brought to the
9TH inst
From China there is nothing Of much cousc-
Iquence. The over land mail had not arrived
when the steamer left. From Syria, Egypt aud
| Turkey, the news still wears pecifc aspect Me-
hemet Ali, unable to resist the Allied Powers ape
pears disposed to put the best face upon affairs,
and TO submit with The best possible grace TO an
unpleasant necessity.
The news, SD far as il goes, is pacific There
! is, certainly, nothing that would seem at all 10
threaten the present amcabe relations the Eu-
ropenn Powers. In the House of Commons, ON
! Monday, Lord Palnerston said that he saw moth l.
ing which, in his apprehension, was likely TO lead
| to the disturbance of paciic relations between
France and England.
| The Liverpool Mail busters and talks of War,
but is entitled to no attention. 1t is particularly
vindctive against this country. 1t snys. "Tho
revenue is deciungthe expenditure is increas-
ing-we are nj war in China, and shall be at
war with the United States in the course of six
weeks and most probably with France also. Lord
Johh Russell has therefore quite enough to do,
md we wish him safe deyerance. If he could
manage to stir up good rebellion in Ireland, il
would tend very much to the tranquility OF that
country for, when we IRE at war, we never
have too much OF il. The forcer it rnges the
sooner it ends. Ireland will never be a peaceful
and prosperous country until it is reconquered and
thrHshed into obedience. The United Stnles win
continue To poster and plumber us Until New York
is burnt and Maine annihiIaed. The news brought
by the packets yesterday is conclusive oil this
point"
.ucLeod. 1t was rninored in Paris AT the latest
,lates that tho French Cabinet was disposed TO Of
Ter her meditation to arrange Our MLeOd dispute
with the United Stntes.
| DR.. Anderson n celebrated physician of Green
ock, was walking on the pier there, when by tho
violence of the wind, he was was carried away
from the friends with whom hp WINS conyersinU.
and blown into the water, where, his cloak flap
ping around him, he could make no exertion, and
was drowned. He WINS eghty-nine years Of nge.
The Emperor of Russia ha> decreed that the i'm
poriatlon of foreign grain duty free, which was
permitted by the ukase dated June 81, 1910, shall
he authorized on the basis during the year
154I.
Sir Ashley Cooper is dead
The christening Of the Princess Royal took
place on the evening of the 10Th ult.
DREADFUL COLLISION AT SEA.
4 ship sunk icith one hundred nditoenty tU0 slWs
on Board
Liverpool, Monday Feb. 25h
1t is our painful task to have to record one o {
the most melancholy disasters, which, of late
years. has taken place i'll the channel, and which
has been accompanied by the loss of not less ihnn
i one hundred aud twenty-five men, women and
- children.
= The American ship, Governor Fenner, Capt.
: Andrews which smiled henre on Friday, ut noon,
for New York, cane in coutnct, on the following
E morning, at two o'clock, off tlolyhead, with the
Nottingham steamer, from Dublin, for this port.
r. Tie ship struck the steamer midshps. So great
, was the force of the collision, the ships bows
" were stove in, and in few minutes from the
time of the vessels coming in contact, sleank,
1.-The captain aud the mate beng the only persons,
out of l24 souls on hoard who saved their lives.
The Nottingham was dreadiully shattered, hut
| having been struck in her strongest part the COL
. slon was not fatal 10 her.
~ From Captain Andrews, whom we saw OH his
4 landing from The Nottingham yesterday, forenoon,
received verbal account OF the disaster; it was
y in substance us follows:
! 1--WE sailed from Liverpool, on Friday last,
y at noon, wind 5 s. w. The crew consisted of
II, and The passengers in the steerage to l06, -
We had n full cargo of manufactured goods =
!, On Saturday morning, al two O'clock the wind
u blowing fresh from the > West and when the
IL ship was under double reefed topsais, the glib,
II spanker, and mailsaii in, saw steamer TO wind
ward on the lurboard bow. The ships helm was
Sc instantly put hard port The steamer crossed
D. our how, and we struck her right anidships -
10 From the force of the coission it evident that
D. either the ship or the would sink, or per-
haps both Instantly felt that The Ship the bows
N Of which were stove in, was sinking. | cried out
r 10 the crew, all the passengers were below, TO en-
e eavor to save their lives. They, instead Of run
n ming forward, through fear ran aft My first oh
rs ect to endenvor TO save the crew and pa SEN
D. gerS hui so RAPID was lie SINKING oil me snip,
" found il impossible to do any thing TO accomplish
is that object. and the mute thea ran forward,
g. aud, finding the ship fast sinking, tried to Jump
l. on to the steamer. Failing in the attempt through
4 momentary faininess | made a second. and,
10 just the ship was at the waters edge, succeed =
: ell in grusping II rope which was hanging over
the steamers side. The mate saved his life by
Is jumping from the foieyard arm on the seainer's
10 deck. In minute The ship sunk, with sixteen
= of her crew and all the passengers, amounting 10
~ l22 souls. The steamers boat was instantly
lowered, for the purpose OF making al attempt to
J. save such OF the crew and passengers ns might he
floating. but it unfortunately swamped alongside
u The passengers all below in their berths
es when the collision between the ship and the
steamer took place. The shock caused by i,
Or would of course rouse even those wfo might
Of have been asleep. No doubt they would make II
= rush towards the deck; the interval, however,
rs which elapsed between the shock and the sinking
Or was so short scarcely five minutes that very few
n. if any, could have succeeded in reaching it. So
b. that in all probability, most OF them had persisted
z, in their births
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