New-York daily tribune., 1842-12-08
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senpers is Gen. CAss, our Minister 10 France.
The overland Mail had arrived with news of some
impouance. A terrible tale of shpwrcck and
marine disaster is given in the English papers.
In Cotton there has been TO marked change,
though sales have been somewhat larger. Corn
has slightly improved. The Reports OF the foor
Law Commissioners exhibit q frighttu increase u
poverty-principaly in the agricultural 1,'l''''',
Beyond this there is no local news ffen h"s''"1
of any interest.
SuIpwprnys.-The British schooner George,
from Tarragona for Liverpool, with WINE, &C.
o,,,.L !. snnls.n rock of Lisbon, and went down
80 srdd.,lv that the crew had hardly time TO
escape in the boats
A. Ro,bsay, on the 18th ultmo, the William, Of
clo,cester foundered of the South end of the Butte.
Two of the crew were lost with her. their BODIES
were afterward washed ashore and inferred.
TheHamitton "a hne brig of 300 tons, ,ran upon the
Breakers off Hacwich, and very went to pieces.
The crew, twelve in number, took the boat, which,
by reason OF the dense fog, soon swamped, and out
of the twelve only one was saved. Capt. Bradbury
was among the lost.
The ship Reliance, from Canton to London, with
27 ,O00cnests OF tea, was wrecked near Boulougne-
and one hundred md ten, out Of the one hundred
and sixteen persons on 6oard rere lost. She was
said to be insured Tor 1875, ,000of which the offices
in Calcutta and Bombay responsible for at least
Gl50000 The vessel struck about2 o clock IN the
1norning--with fair wind. Of those saved, one
was the carpenter, and FIVE were Lascars.
The scene Of horror and confusion which reigned
on board until daylight described by the survivors
as of the awful character though little beyond
the manner in which the and passengers lost
their lives has atprescnt transpired The confusion
and terror consequent upon the suddenDcss with
which the vessel struck such, that no orders on
the part of the ships officers attended TO, and
some time elapsed before signals of distress could
be fired. These signals continued 10 be made until
daylight but without any effect, no boat having put
of to the vessel The Beuogne Gazette says:-
There was means OF affordlng lhe least
assistance" But whether this arose from the state
of the tide, the nature of the shore on which she
struck, or the absence of lifeboats, or other ord
nary modes adopted on such occasions, Is not given
As soon as the day broke and the coast was dis
cerned it was determined to hoist out the boats
This was quickly accomplished, but the long-boat
was Immediately swampcd by the breakers, and
the others, from being overloaded, went down
within short distance of the vessel The Cap
tais remained on board to the last moment, and
went down while the Carpenter. who reached
the shofe in safety. Many bodies had been washed
on the beach, some of them showing symptom, OF
life; but although every medical attention was
pr6naptly rendered, none of them was restored.
The scene on the beach was one of the most cx-
raordnary description, from the number OF chests
of tea which came ashore when the ship broke up.
1t was ebb tide when the vessel struck; but before
daylight the sea was flowing FAST at 10 o'clock she
was perfect wreck. Out of 27 900 chests on board
only 1886 have yet been saved, and these are all
much damaged by the sea-water.
The Waterloo, convict ship of Ala tons, was
wrecked near Cape Town. on the last of August
and one hundred aud ninety persons persisted
Ait6 her.
She was bound to Van DiemaA's Land, and had
on board, besides her crew 2l9 male cenvicts, DR..
Helsall in charge; Lieutenant Hext Ensign Leigh,
thirty men of Her Majesty's 99th Regiment, five
women and thirteen children. She took the ground
between l and 12 o'clock in the forenoon, and in
Is or 90 minutes became mass of rubbish And
ensued piteous massacre. In about
two hours and half, amid the crumbling heaps
of their perfdious prisoH,-of men, women and
children, 100 were crushed, disabled and drowned.
There was no preparation for saving life made or
beard or on shore. No life-buoys, no coils of ropes
lashed to casks, nor any apparatus for establishing
communications with the shore from the ship On
the shore there no fe-beat apparatus for
throwing ropes stranded vessels, nor any thing
in short, to show that the Government or people
here had ever before heard of such thing as a
shipwreck We stood among thousands the
beach within $50 yards of the dissolvng fabric,
looking the agonized faces of our fellow crea-
lures they sank in dozens, battered and bruised
and sufocated useless US children, or idiots, or
wild Caffres.
Two unofficial spectators, Mr.. Molteno and Mr..
Still, procured the assistance Of common boat
belonging to Malay, which reached the Water
loo after she was falling to pieces. and brought off
two men, and on second trip fastened rope
the wreck. After this larger boat, belonging to
Messrs. Sinclair, was brought from the Abercrom-
by Robinson and, moving backwards and forwards
along The rope saved good many lives This
shows what might have been done by lfe-boat,
used in time
The loss of life by the ruin OF the Waterloo is
as follows
Convicts. ...-.---143 Women .........-.4
Soldiers .......-..15 Children ..........l Ia
Sailors ----........14 Total. ....-.. 1870
Another transport, the Abercromby Robinson,
went ashore near the same place, the same
night, with sol soldiers besides her crew and pas
sengess on board. No lives were lost.
SPAIN.-The Madrid journals of the 9TH
alive on the subject of commercial treaty with
England. The Madrid Eche of the Sth expresses
considerable fear of an impending dissolution of
the Cor,es, and deprecates such q measure.
FROM INpA.-Thc following abstract of the
most important news BY the overland mail, iron.
Winners NEWSLETTER:
Canaahar was finally evacuated by Gen. Mott on
thn- Q,l.