The Express. — 1864-08-16 (London, England)

LOSS OP AN AUSTRALIAN SHIP.  FEARFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE CREW.  Another melancholy shipwreck, and again attended with frightful sufferings and loss of life, has to be reported. A succession of heavy gales memo to have swept the whole Pacific Ocean, indicting an amount of damage almost °novicedastard. With the exception of one or two cases, Liverpool dripping, so far as we ran leans. has escaped well ; but of the weasel in question—the All Serene—we have a different tale to tell It appears she was on • voyage from the Sandwich Ldaods to Sydney, having been chartered to carry • cargo of timber. She left Sandwich Islands on the Z'Sth of January, and had fair winds and dos weather till the 21st of February. The morning of that day commenced with very slight rain. About 9 a.m. it began to rain heavily, and between 11 and 12 it began to blow, but the ship was under very rang sail sod weathered it beautifully. The gale increasing, everything was being done to withstand the storm, when two tanks, which were stowed on deck and on each side of the wheel, got adrift, and carried the wheel away. The ship, consequent on the lose of the wheel, broached to, heeling over to leeward tremendously, sometimes dipping her fore and main yards half in the water. The mimes mast was cut away to ease the tremendous rolling of the ship, which was frequently buried beneath the seas. Most of the passengers and crew, with the exception of the mate, the captain's wife, and two children, who had pre. viously been washed overboard, managed to reach the main and mires chains. An tipswitueso describes the seems in the chaise ite heartrending. Of 37 in the forward chains, only three got safely back again. A mist was eventually made, in which the remainder of the crew and passengers embarked sod stood for lead. Their sufferings in the boat are thus described by a survivor :—" Now began our fearful scene ; numbers dying every day for want of water, suffering from sores, boils, &r., from drinking sea water." We will pass over the sixteen days they were in the boat ; suffice it to say that every day one, two. and often three deaths from sheer starvation occurred. About 8 p.m. on the ITtli of March, land was discovered on the starboard bow, and shortly afterwards (says the narrator) we struck ea some coral reef, off the island of liordara (Fiji group). You can easily judge of the trouble we had to land from a coral reef. Six of the Woolen' of as jumped out and made for a light which we saw on the shore, and found it to be in the houses of the native.. We were greatly *fetid of the natives, sod at first doubted their ?deadliness to us; brit we wronged them, for they treated us with great kiadnoes the five days we remained with them. Om the Saturday, a Wesleyan missionary, who had heard from the native of -oar condition. came to us sod remained till Monday. He was the Rev. J. Nettleton, and left us no the Moedsy only to make arreneemeets with his brother minister, the Rev, William Fletcher, for our welfare. The next day two whale boats were vent for us, bringiog promote to the chiefs for their kindness to us while there. Nine of us went to Mr. Nettleton's residence, and the remainder to Mr. Fletcher's, and all received the utmost comfort and care. The All Serene was a vessel of 1,003 tons bnrthen, sad was under the command of Captain Myers. She was owned is Melbonme.—Liverpool Mercury.  MCLANCHOLY SClClDL.—Yesterday morning an inquest was bald by Dr. Hardwieke, the deputy coroner for Ceotral Middlesex, at No. 17, Doughty-street, near the Foundling Hospital, being the residence of Mr. John Brahma, aged 64 years, who was found hanging to the hunters on Sunday morning shortly before 6 o'clock. It appeared that the deceased wu of the Jewish persuasioo, and was living upon his means, after retirement from business. He was that moroiog to have `one on a visit to Bristol, but as the servant girl was taking up his breakfast she saw him banging by the neck from the banisters on the wood Moor stain. She raised au alarm, when deceased was ant down, and medical minters) obt•ined, bat life was extinct although the body was warm. The deceased, it was shows, laboured under • Myrna relative to property. He feared he was catalog to wank and that the workhouse would be his sod. Mr. Louis Benham, physician, and son of the deceased, deposed to his father being subject to despondency, which bad continued for the lad 18 months, sad in 1614 he was under restraint at Barthwiok for four months. There was • tendency to suicide in his family, for demand's mother and an War sister destroyed their lives. Mr. Robert Cliff, surgeon, said he was called to ese deceased, and described the manner in which he found him, and the farrowed state of the neck of the duessed, which had been effected by • sash line. The may." reletnied • verdict of "Suicide under temporal in.