Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-11-03
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ca EEDONTA
'tse4 days laleT From Esirope.
l.e Greas Britain safe.


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Ths Caledonia alfieedst eleven O'Clock
op Thursday night I6s Grea. Br;tai,
Iran ashore on the coast of Ireland the
night she started. All the passengers
We're saved, among them Rev. r. Church,
SeFeEsl of the Great Britairl's passen.
gers took passage IN the packet ship New
York.
LIVERPOOL MARKET.-FIour has ad.
yanced Free flour 24sa35s Sd. WbeaI
Tor Y. States red, g. TO IS Cd 10 9s 3D.
Lhe advance IS 3sa4s on flour: Indian
Corn DDS. Corn meal 23s. o. x.
Large shipments to Ireland Of -FOUR.
!, there are agents buying fer France. ,Hol.
land and Belgium. Spectators are buyinp
IN b ond at32s,on The supposition that the
1PortsA1ill be altopened In Great Brit.
ain.e xss fs:s -; 80
From Wilmer < Smiths Times.
WRECK OFTHE GREAT BRITAIN.
She left Liverpool on the 22d of Sem.
ttembeF, taking one hundred and eighty
hive passengers, about sixty tons cf valua-
bic goods, as freight, and about the same
Iaeasurement ofpassengers luggage
She took her departure, witnessed by a
largo concourse of spectators, amid the
lcheers ofcongregated thousands and the
roar ef artillery. Alter clearing the Bell
Buoy, she bore away for the calf of Man
with the intention OF running the north
eastpass passage between the Isle of Man
and Ireland.
The. morning was beautiful, the wind
was fair, the ship was insexcellent trim,
and she had an abundant promise Of a
pleasant and rapid passage, and that, too
under The command of an able and ex.
perlenced captain, who had most success.
fully tor some years Tayigated the allan.
tic ocean, to the satilaction of his passen.
gerssthe commercial public and the com.
Pany BY whom he is employed. For a..
bout ten hours the noble palace of iron--.
the largest thai perhaps tenants the deem
was propelled by steam and wind al
the rate OF II knots an hour. In, fact. II
may be said, that she mad overrun her.
self.
AT four or FIVE o'clock in the afternoon
the island was distinctly. visible on the
starboard bow. Shortly after it set in to
rain and the wind increased, the ship ma
King excellent progress, and the passen-
gersnncommonly delighted with the YES.
sci and her admirable qualities as sea
boat. Night then closed in, dark and
wet, and the wind gradually freshened in.
to half,gale. the log was repeatIy ia.
ken. The weather was thick and foggy;
and the ship passed the Calf lights before
dark, without being able to distinguish
the light house at that station.
About half past nine o'clock at night.
the passengers were startled BY an extra.
ordinary noise on deck, and cry of stop
5herl-agr ground aground, the breakers.
the breakers!l--swc are wrecked
we are wrecked A general fear pre- pre-,
vailed that the ship was in collision with
some other vessel; but it was found that
she has stranded.
s The night was dark and stormy. the
ship beat necessarily upon the sand, the
breakers repeatedly breaking heavily o.
yer her, and one of the life boats boats
was carried from its fastenings on the
quarter, Alarm and cries instantly per.
yaded the ship, and apprehensions were
general amongst the passengers that the
ship would break up during the night be.
meath the force of the breakers which
constantly burst over her deck. To add
TO that moment ofwoe, the Lightning glar.
ed, the thunder beloved most portentous.
ly from a thick curtain Of overhangir o
clouds and the rain began to fall in for.
rents. The scene was one that. battles
description. So far as the eye could
pierce through the gloom, the sea was a
general chaldron of foam, and the spray
lashing the sides ofthe ship, flew over ali /
on board like snow flakes.
As We said before, the ship had out.
sailed her captains reckoning, and the
light on st Johns Point being mistaken
torthat offhe Calf Of Man, she went a.
shore at Rathmullin. in Dundrum Bay.
II is thought the ship is so disabled as to
prevent her ever crossing the Atlantic
Ocean again. ssis,s
The Potatoe crop in Ireland has proved
a total failure. ~
tits stated the distress and desti:ution
consequent upon the failure ofthe potatoe
eropin Ireland, is awful. The papers oil
that country are filled with reports ofmeet.l
Ings held to provide means for the en-
ployment ofthe people. 81.
- Turning from famine reports, the pa.
Pers are filed with sayings and doings of
iof the Repealers. Mr., O Connell's friends
at meeting had taken unfair advantage
OF the Young Ireianders,' and great indie. |
nation was manifested.
Its said the British parliament would |
meet on the 4th November, to which il |
stands prorogued. -
Ten thousand Russian Jews are ex
peeled to arrive IN the Holy Land to settlel