Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-12-27
LATER FROM EUROPE.
From the New York Express.

The steamship COLUMBIA, Capt. MILLER
arrived at Boston on Tuesday morning
bringing Liverpool dates Of the 10Th ult-
Among her passengers is Gen. Cass, our
Minister to France. The overland mail
had arrived with news of some importance.
A terrible tale of shpwreck and Marine
disaster is given in the English papers. In
cotton there has been no marke change.
though sales have been somewhat larger.
Corn has slightly improved. The Reports
of the Poor Law Commissioners exhibit a
laightful increase of poverty-principally
in the agricultural districts. Beyond this
there is no local news from England of
any interest.
SHIpwRECKs.--The British Schooner.
George, from Tarragona for Liverpool,
with wine, &c. struck sunken rock off
Lisbon, and went down SO suddenly that the
crew had hardly time to escape in their
boats.
At Rothsay, on..the 18th ultimo, the VII
liam, OF Gloucester, foundered off the south
end OF the Butte. Two of the crew were
lost with her. Their bodies were after
wards found washed ashore and inferred.
dred TONS ran upon the breakers of Har-
wlch, and very soon went to pieces. The
crew, twelve in number, took to 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 Lon
don, with II 600 chests of tea, was wreck
ed near Boulougne, and one hundred and
| ten out OF one hundred and sixteen passen-
gers on board were lost. She was said to
be insured for Gl05, OOO-of which the
! offices in Calcutta and Bombay are respon-
slble for at least Gl5O,OOO. The vessel
struck about two O'Clock in the morning
with fair wind. Ofthose saved, one was
the carpenter and five Lascars.
The scene of horror and confusion which
reigned on board until daylight is described
by the survivors as of the most awful char
acter, though little beyond the manner in
which the crew and passengers has at pre-
sent lost their lives, transpired. The con-
fusion and terror consequent upon the sud
denness with which the vessel struck was
such, that no orders on the part Oft the ships
officers were attended to. and some time
elapsed before signals Of distress could be
fired These signals continued to be fired
until daylight, but without any effect, no
boat having put off to the vessel. The
| Boulogne Gazette says;-" There was no
means of atfording the 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 life boats, or
other ordinary boats adopted on such occa-
sons, is not given. AS soon as the dav
broke and the coast was discerned, it was
! determined to hoist out the boats. This was
quickly accomplished, but the long boat was
Immediately swamed by the breakers, and
the others from being overloaded, went
down within Il short distance from the YES
sci. The Captain remained on board to
the last minute, and went down while near
| the Carpenter, who reached the shore in
safety. Many bodies had been washed on
the beach, some of them showing svmp-
toms of life; but although every medical
attention was promptly rendered, none of
| them was restored.
The scene on the beach was one OF the
most extraordinary description, from the
number of chests of tea which came ashore
when the ship broke up. 1t was ebb tide
when the vessel struck; bat before DAYLIGHT
the sea was flowing fast, at 10 O'Clock She
was perfect wreck. Out of27 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 and ninety
persons persisted with her.
BY extracts of letter which was recei-
we'd on Saturday by Her Majesty's ship
Hyacinth. from Cape Town, via Scina's
Bay, dated August 30 1912, we learn that
it blew a heavy gale on the 9th Of Au-
gust in Table Bay, which increased IN
force. with heavy claps of thunder The
next morning the inhabitants ofCape Town
discovered the wreck of the Abercrombie,
Robinson, AS tons, from London. a splen-
did ship of the line. About three hundred
yards from her was the convict ship Wa
terloo, and within sight of the multitude on
shore she gave lee-lurch among the brea-
skers. After two or three heavy rolls, her
three masts went over the sides with a
crash. Here follow the extracts:
The matches were how opened, and the
convicts rushed on deck. The sea was now
making a clean breach over her. Imme-
dately on the convicts arriving on deck,
about fifty of them jumped overheard; about
fifteen OF twenty gained the shore, and the
remainder was drowned. The cries of the
poor wretches on deck were now heart
breaking. Each sea, as it made breach
over the unfortunate vessel, carried doz-
en- or SO into the water, who of course were
drowned. Thousands of people were on
the beach, who could not render the least
assistance. Oh it was dreadful sight
There within a stones throw Law two or
three hundred human being drowned before
our ewes.