VESSEL BURNT.-Monday morn...
The Times, 1824-07-30T00:00:00

VESSEL BuRNT.-Monday morniing the greatest alarm prevailed in Shields harbour, in consequence of a fire breaking otit on board the ship Ciirnberlaiud, one ot' the Newcastle traders. She wns lying on the south side of' the harbour, near to the lMill-dam, and was laden with a general cargo of merchandise for London. About three o'clock intimation being given that the vessel was on fire, measures were immediately taken to remove her, in order to k;eep her clear of the other shipping. She was run upon the sand be- low Illilburo-place,ou the north 6ide of the river, and her appear- ance was terrifically grand. The flares burst forth through the deck near to the mainmast, and spread to the rigging and sails with a futy almost indescribable. A great numnber of boats were on the alert; but f'rotn fear of the mainmast coining overboard, which took place about $ive o'clock, they were obliged to keep at a re- spectful distance. A fire-engine was at length got to bear upon her,. but the vessel was then so completely enveloped in flanme, that every exertion to save any part of her valuable cargo was fruhiless. The whole of the vessel is destroyed except her two sides andone of her lower masts. Theamount of the damagehas not yet been ascer. tained, but it niust be verv considerabfe; one gentlean alone had 2,0001. worth of whalebone on board. It is not known how the fire originated: some conjecture that, it may have been caused by two keels of charcoal that were on board. On Wednesday the grand sailing match between the Do. Giovan2ni and the 8t Georgc pleasure-boats, for 50 sovereigns, frorn Blackfriars-biidgeto Putney, and backtoCumberland-gardens, was decided in favour of the formner. AnACACHAt RoorT.-A New York Paper contains the following letter from Dr. Alitchill to the Meissrs. Princes, of Flush- ing,. relative to the introduction of the South.Amcrican plant Ara- eacha :_ . New York, June 24, l824. ;.Genaenien,-Afler, several disappointments, and repeated, I may almost say umwearied exertions, - this moment got possession of a box gen,t me by my correspondent, H. 1\1. Mitchill, of Caraccas, containing roots of the famous South American plant called Araca- cha. . The root is esculent; and reported to be more palatable, 'nu- tritious, and productive thanthepotato. Its nativesoii isthe region 4round_Bogota; which is ro high .tbove the levelof the ocean, in-the mniddle Andes, as to correspond with our middle latitudes here- Abouts. By the delay of the voyage, the dampness of the packing and perhapa other causes, all the roots my friend had forwardeda were found to be rotten except two. These are sound, rind in a ve- geating condition ;-precious survivors of the surroanding mortality. The BMron'de Shack wrote mne oMd they were the food of the iich a'siv.lf as of'the peor-of thelordly mpaster and of his -u2:ble slave. Ifc also stated, stranige as it naay seem, that ihxs extraor- dinary-yegrtable is species o- i Ctrium.. 12ving phints will be for- warded byv3iin from the island-of Tiinidad, if required. But we nlow posseasthlem These specimens are consigned to your. care, fee icons6idelions of personal artl~d, and from a persuasion they wl.51erive 'from your skill and meas. the best chance of growuag and producing seed. Take thens under your special protecuoa,.asl believe them the only ones that-have ever reached these shores. *l The heat of the Nveather in France appears to be extreme: persplos of both sexes, labouring in the ?efds, have d d.dbwh. dead. from the heat. Biras also bave fallen dead from the same cause, both. in France and-Spain. In tihe latter country vegetation- has been ruined to ani alarming extent. .[Ad&artiliemeit- l'The iVNew Bonfody1 ffMgazzifw for.August I' contains-The third' and last Paper on Absercteeism; Popular' Songs of- the modern' Greeks; British Galleries df Art,; No. 12; the Fitztilliam Galbiey: afVCmubridge; Grimm's ;Ghoa - No. 19, L'oveaamong the Liw Bop4s; Letters frorq thfeBist, No., Thoe!;, The Dean of Santiago, a Taleftiom the Conde Lucanor; and-about thetty otber original Paipers, exclusive of a Resiew of uiew Piuhhi.- ruitions; jbieilgo aswel as Englisb and the iisual Re,orts ani Va- rieties ~irt, hrScis en-General:Litergture,- Music,. and the llrama, Politic ils C'onsinercial, and D omuistin Occurrence.= -&c.~ LobdonD, printed for h2enry Colburn, 1ewiL'urlinbgtth.sirecthBel and Brad - fatej Ediliitirgh-; andJobti- Cniiniing,-hibiin' - of wvhoun ina lbe had-nil -the former numbers frori the comnleicemeat Gf the worint JanVtnryS 1821; orthe vdl&h5sy ;ndso elalhlfabeund, priceI4s: eatht.