The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-02-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS  FOUR HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN LIVES LOST. Port Philip and Hobart Town papers received last week give the melancholy details of the loss of the Cataraqui, emigrant ship, upon the iron-bound coast of Kin's island, in Bass's Straits, (between Australia and Van Dieman's Land,) a locality in which, for want of lighthouses, it is said, the lives of hundreds are daily endangered. The following particulars are condensed from the account supplied by Mr. Guthrie, the chief-mate, who, with his eight fellow survivors, reached the shore almost in a state of nudity, having of course lost every thing they possessed.  The Cataraqui, Captain C. W. Finlay, sailed from Liverpool on the 20th of April, for Van Dieman's Land, with 369 emigrants, and a crew (including two doctors, brothers, named Carpenter,) of 46. The emigrants were Sir Robert Peel completed the 58th year of his age on principally from Bedfordshire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Thursday and Nottinghamshire. About 120 of the passengers were Mr. R. Cooke, a surgeon, was on Friday, in London, married, with families, and in all 73 children. On the sentenced to seven years transportation' for bigamy. 3rd August, at seven in the evening, the ship was hove A Society is just formed in London, called "The Soto, and continued lying to until three a.m. of the 4th. At ciety for Promoting Church Music." half-past four, it being quite dark, and raining hard, blow- A ship has just left the Clyde, for the West Indies, ing a fearful gale, and the sea running mountains high, with a cargo of metal coffins the ship struck on a reef, situate on the W. coast of By a recent Treasury order British spirits may be bottled King's Island, entrance of Bass's Straits. No observa- in bond for export under certain regulations. tion to ascertain the ship's precise position could be taken On Sunday morning week, a fresh-grown mushroom was for four days previously, and from the dead reckoning she gathered by the way-side, near Preston. was presumed to be in 141 22 E. long., and 39 17 S. lat., A fine butterfly was seen near Bath the last week in making her 60 or 70 miles from King's Island. When January.—Another was caught near Liverpool. she s•ruck four feet water was found in the hold: The The personal estate of the late Isaac Cohen, Esq., in scene of confusion and misery that ensued was indesclib- England. is sworn under £300,000. able. All the passengers attempted to rush upon deck, On Sunday, through the upsetting of a boat at Yarand many succeeded in doing so, until the ladders were mouth, three persons were drowned. knocked down by the working of the vessel, when the In the horrible case, at Greenwich, the chemists have shrieks of men, women, and children, from below were found large quantities of arsenic in the body of the child. terrific, calling on the watch on deck to assist them. The On Tuesday a fine lively infant was found in a basket crew to a man were on deck the moment the ship struck, in the Hyde Park, London. and were instantly employed in handing up the passengers. The number of converts to Romanism from the upper Up ,o the time the vessel began breaking up it is sup- ranks of society, during the last few months, now exceeds posed that between three and four hundred persons were one hundred. Nearly forty are clergymen. got on deck by the extraordinary exertions of the crew. On Friday week a poor man at Kirkcudbright comAt this time the sea was breaking over the ship on the miited suicide by hanging himself, in consequence of haylarboard side, sweeping the decks, every sea taking away ing had a quarrel with his (laughter, a worthless character. more or less of the passengers. At five a.m. the ship fell The Post-office authorities have discovered that spudover on her larboard side, carrying away boats, bulwarks, ous postage stamps, to a considerable amount, have been Sco. The captain ordered the masts to be cut away, in issued in London. hopes of righting her, and getting the passengers stiff l be- During the performances at the City of London Theatre low on de, k; and everything was done, but without avail. on Tuesday night, a man named Briton was killed by the The ship became full of water, and the passengers below fall of a cannon, and another seriously injured. decks were all drowned. Those above were directed to On utsday, Augustus Hopeton, of Holloway, aged cling to the wreck above water till daylight. When day 14, was accidentally shot by his younger brother, while broke it was found that the stern was washed in, and I firing at sparrows in their father's garden. numerous dead bodies floating around the ship, some Within the last week the Trent has ,gain overflowed hanging on the rocks. Several of the passengers and crew its banks, and laid a vast extent of land under water, the (about 200 altogether) were still holding on to the vessel, marshes having been covered for miles. the sea breaking over, and every wave washing somebody The associated mill-owners of Manchester propose, on away. About four p.Ol. she parted amidships, at the Sir Robert Peel's measure becoming law, to reduce the forepart of the main rigging, when immediately some 70 hours of factory labour from twelve to eleven.—Daily or 100 were launched into the tumultuous and remorse- News. less waves. The survivors ran ridge-lines along the side A spot is now traversing the sun's d which is e, f