The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-07-26
ARRIVAL OF THE
ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP
CALEDONIA.
SEVEN DAYS LATER!
FROM EUROPE.

ROme-Barqe run do,0n at Sea and
One Hundred and Fourteen Lives Lost
-Gathering Tempest IN France.
The Caledonia Steamer arrived at Hall
fax on Thursday afternoon, rather over
due, and by steamboat and express to st.
Johns, we have the news despatched by
Telegraph from that place on Friday af-
ternoon.
The vessel will reach Boston on Satur-
day at noon. She brings IS passengers,
exclusive IS survivors of the passengers
of the barge Charles Bartlett, run down al
sea.
This melancholy disaster took place on
Wednesday afternoon, June 9th, about
700 miles westward of Cape Clear. A
dense fog prevailed at the time. The
Cunard steamer Europa, from New York,
bound for Liverpool, steaming under full
head, ran into the barque Charles Bart
lett, from London, bound for New York
with emigrants.
The wreck of the barque was so COM
plete tnat she went down in three minutes,
and shocking to relate, out of l56 souls on
board Ia went down with the vesscl!.
The Charles Bartlett cleared from Lon
NAOi WIN % poooSAiSOiS,
and crew of l L persons. The Captain
80 of the passengers, making the meagre
aggregate of 42 souls, which were saved
out of I56.
1t would seem incredible that such de-
plorable occurrence could take place a,
open sea at daylig hit, and neither party to
the collision being culpable. Yet the Eu.
ropa is acquitted of all the blame-no,
only by her own crew and passengers,
but by the survivors of the ill-fated barque
and by the unanimous voice of the British
press and public.
A subscription for the unfortunate i'm.
poverished survivors of the disaster was
set on foot among the Europa's passengers
which amounted to 1852 sterling, tc
which the proprietors generously added
ego on the Europa's arrival.
The Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane
Society voted a gold medal to Mr.. S. B.
Forbes, passenger of the Europa, who
on the occasion of the collision acted with
the most generous and astonishing gallan.
try, succeeded by his recklessness of dan.
ger, IN rescuing many persons from wat
cry grave.
The Europa sustained no material dam.
age from the collision.
THE DOWNFALL OF ROME.
On the 80 tn ultimo the Constituted AS.
sembly of Rome finding that further re-
sistance to the assaults of the French ar.
my would be vain, and that the further
efiusion of blood would be fruitless, deter.
mined to cease hostilities, and virtually
surrendered the Eternal City to the besieg.
lug army.
On the 5th inst. an official notification
was made to the French Constituent As
semblY that in consequence of an arrange
mcnt concluded by Gen. Oud;not and the
Roman I'riumvirate, the gates of Pavolo
Portesea, and San Panoramic had been
thrown open TO the French troops who
were advancing within the inner walls
Measures were taken for the immediate
occupation of the city by the army, which
would be made complete, Ut was expected
with perfect order and quiet.
This communication produced pro-
found sensation in the French Chamber,
silence attestcd the grief and pain, which
were the prominent emotions.
A correspondent writing from Paris the
latest date says: 'Just as the Bourse was
closing it was stated positively that the
Government of Louis Napoleon had re.
ceived a telegraphic despatch announcing
the entry of the French army into Rome
and the withdrawal of the forces of Gcri-
baldi. The French were received with
exclamation by the people. This is the
French Colts account.
FRANCE AND ROME.
The Legislative Assembly at Paris has
been the scene ot much turbulence, re-
ernimatlon, aud hiekcring tbroughont tho