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run her on shore, which. was about a mile and a half 
distant, ordered the steam to be let on, for the purpose 
of backing her off. This accordingly ‘was done, and the 
vessel proceeded heavily in the direction of the shore, 
but had not gone above two hundred and fifty yards, 
when the water, rushing in at the fissure which the 
rock had made in the bow, instantly extinguished the 
fires, and, of course, stopped the working of the engine. 
A few seconds served to complete the catastrophe. The 
passengers, seeing that the vessel was rapidly going down, 
and would very soon be submerged, made a rush towards 
the boats, which had been previously Jowered, the effect 
of which movement was, that both being overloaded, were 
swamped; and those who had thus attempted to escape 
were involved in the same destruction, and almost simul- 
taneously, with those on board the steamer. The scene 
which ensned does not admit of description. The shrieks 
of the drowning women are described as terrific. Several 
of them were high upon the masts ; but as the vessel gra- 
dually sank, they were either washed into the water, or 
perished on the rigging. Six lives, however, were saved, 
—those of two passengers and four of the crew, who were 
picked up by the Martello steamer, a v el belonging to 
the same company, which was on its way from Hull, and 
by the same cou Between 5 and 6 o’clock in the 
morning, when this vessel passed the Fern Islands, the 
wreck of the Pegasus was discovered, the topmast being 
about five feet above water. Immediately before a boat 
came drifting past, containing one of the passengers still 
living, who was picked up, but being quite unable to utter 
a word, they were not by him made aware of the catas- 
trophe. A dead body, however, next floated past, and 
this told something of the sad story, which they soon 
understood too well, when, looking round, they discovered 
at some distance the topmast of the Pegasus, with two 
individuals clinging to it. They immediately proceeded 
toward them, and having picked them up, tacked about 
for some time, and succeeded in picking up other three 
individuals, who had been clinging to various supports, 
thus saving altogether six persons. The passenger saved 
were—a person named Baillie, who belongs to Hall, 
whither he was returning along with a gentleman in a weak 
state of mind, who was lost ; and a Mr. Hillyard, also 
belonging to Hull. Baillie was saved by keeping his place 
in one of the boats, which, though all but filled with 
water, was quite sufficient to sustain one individual 5 and 
Hillyard was one of those on the top of the rigging. 
Those of the crew saved were, the mate, the engineer, 
the carpenter, and a fireman. The Martello remained in 
the vicinity of the wreck for about three hours, and 
picked up six of the bodies, two of which, it is said, 
(those of the second engineer and of a young Jad named 
David Scott, from Paisley,) gave signs of life after being 
brought on board, but could not be effectually restored. 
Three of the other bodies were those of females ; the 
first, that of a middle-aged married lady, since 
claimed asa Mrs. Alexander, from Paisley ; the second 
an elderly woman, who had evidently been aroused from 
her bed, and who still lies unclaimed in South Leith 
Church, where all the bodies were carried upon thé arrival 
of the Martello at Leith. ‘The third has been claimed as 
Miss Barton, a young lady who had just left Miss Banks’s 
boarding-school in Edinburgh to return to her friends in 
Lincolnshire. When found she had firmly clasped in her 
arms a little boy, apparently about four years old, the 
brother of a young lady on board, also a pupil of the same 
school, whom it is supposed she had seized witha hope to 
save. Another body claimed is that of Mr. Jas. Martin, 
son of Mr. Martin, cabinet-maker, Great Russell-street, 
Covent Garden, who is also lost. The names of all the 
sufferers, or even of most of them, are as yet unknown ; 
and as the steerage passengers were not booked, many 
will, in all probability, never be ascertained. The cabin 
assengers booked at Leith were—Mrs. Edington, from 
Edinburgh; Miss Hopetoun, Miss Floors, Miss Briggs, 
Mrs. M‘Leod, Mr. M‘Leod; Mr. Torry, from Hull; Mr. 
Elton, the well-known actor, who appeared last week at 
the Edinburgh Adelphi Theatre, and has left seven orphan 
children; Mr. Hodgson, son of Mr. Hodgson, printer, 
Hdinburgh, and assistant secretary of the Leeds Mechanics’ 
Institute; Rev. Mr. Mackenzie, from Glasgow, tutor in 
the Independent Seminary, and editor of the ‘* Congrega- 
tional Magazine ;”” Mr. Banks; Mr. Elliot and son, 
thought to be from Dundee; Mr. Moxham, Mr. Milne. 
Besides these, it is understood that there were on board 
the following gentlemen :—Mr. David Whimster, of Edin- 
burgh, who was on his way to Sheffield to receive 
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Mr. James Hunter, 
Howe-street; Mr. Martin, of Great Russell-street, Covent 
Garden, London, and son; 
Aird, grocez, Hanover-street, who was on his way to 
London to see a little of mercantile life before setting up 
in business. Some troops belonging to the 56th regiment 
were also on board. 
Hythe.—We have to record another fatal steam-boat 
accident, which occurred on Monday morning, off Dunge- 
The following facts have been gathered from the 
crews of both vessels. he Pluton, a first-rate war- 
steamer, belonging to the French government, after land- 
ing at Southampton, the Duke Ferdinand, the Princess 
Clementine, and other illustrious personages, now on a 
visit to her Majesty, was ordered to proceed round the 
coast to Woolwich, to await their return to the continent. 
On her passage to the Thames, when off Dungeness, while 
going at full speed, she ran into the Jane of Sunderland, 
from Newcastle, bound to Rouen, with coals. Such was 
the force of the collision, that the steamer tore away the 
chains, rigging, and everything within reach of her bows- 
The mate of the schooner was crushed to death between 
the main chains and the steamer’s bows, and his body 
carried overboard. The master, and the rest of the crew, 
jumped into the boat at the schooner’s stern, which went 
down by the head almost at the same moment as the 
painter was cut. After rowing for some time, they came 
up with the Pluton, which, at the moment after the 
collision took place, put her helm hard a-port, and pro- 
ceeded on her passage, until she was compelled to bring 
to, to clear away her bowsprit and head, which had gone 
overboard and impeded her progress. They were taken 
on board, and on being landed yesterday morning at 
Woolwich, received 3s. to pay their passage to London. 
‘The pilot states that he saw the schooner, and heard the 
shouts of hi w, and called to the engineer to stop her, 
and the men at the wheel to put her helm over; but the 
crew of the Pluton (129), being foreigners, and not under- 
stauding English, his commands were not obeyed. 
Liverpool.—An_ extraordinary case of robbery has | 
recently come to light in this town. Jt appears that on 
the 3d inst., Mr. Hayter Blackmore, M.P. for Wells, had 
three Bank of England notes, each of the value of 10002., 
stolen from his pocket between the bank of Messrs. 
Masterman and €o., in London, and his residence in 
Regent-street. On Monday week Mr. Taylor Jennings, a 
clerk in the branch Bank of England in this town, was 
apprehended on a charge of having had one of the 10000. 
notes so stolen in his possession. He was brought before 
Mr. Rushton on Tuesday morning, and discharged for 
want of evidence. On the same day John Anderson, a 
notorious character was placed at the bar, charged with 
having knowingly received the above note. The evidence 
ran to a good length, and consisted chiefly of the deposi- 
tions of Mr. Jennings. It appeared that the prisoner, 
from peculiar and disreputable circumstances, had got 
Jennings in his power, and had first induced him to substi- 
tute seven 100/, notes stolen at the Preston Guild (the par- 
ticulars of which were fully noticed at the time), for seven 
other 100/. notes deposited in the bank by several cus- 
tomers. Foreach note so changed Mr. Jennings received 
71. 10s. as his share of the spoil. On the 7th inst. the 
prisoner Anderson requested Jennings to get a note for 
10002. changed for him, for which service be promised him 
200/. Jennings took the note and delivered it to Mr. 
Wood, who keeps a public-house in Windsor-street, in 
which street the former lodged. He requested Wood to 
get it changed for him, and borrowed from the latter 20/. 
Mr. Wood took the note to Messrs. Barnes, and those 
gentlemen having heard an honest statement from Mr, 
Wood of how he came by it, had suspicions that all 
was not right, and stopped it. The circumstances were 
subsequently detailed by Mr. Wood to the conductors of 
the branch bank, and information having been given to 
the police, it was discovered that the 1000/. note was one 
of those lost on the 3d inst. by Mr. Hayter Blackmore. 
Jennings was immediately apprehended, and this led to 
the subsequent apprehension of Anderson, as above stated. 
In the course of his evidence Mr. Jennings said that he 
asked Anderson how he came by those notes. He told 
him that a person brought them down to Liverpool from 
London. He said two friends of his in London got them 
from a person who was riding in an omnibus. He said 
they saw him come from a house, but he had forgotten 
whether he said a banking-house or what. They watched 
him and saw him get into an omnibus, and they got in 
with him, and when he got out at some street they got 
out too. While he was in the omnibus they saw him 
keep his hand on his right pocket. When they got out 
they followed close to him, and one of them took the 
notes out of his pocket as he got out. One immediately 
set off for Liverpool, and the other watched the gentleman 
about where he went to. They saw him go back to the 
place where they first saw him, and the people that he told 
would not believe him. Anderson said the one who had 
started to Liverpool with the money gave him this 10002. 
ote. ‘These facts were confirmed by several witnesses, 
who, after two examinations, were bound over to prose- 
cute at the assizes, and the prisoner was ordered to be 
remanded forfa week.—Mr. Henderson has been appointed 
the new Recorder of Liverpool. The salary is fixed at 
500 guineas a year, to be paid out of the borough fund, 
although the patronage is in the Secretary of State. 
‘Manchester.—A Chartist, named John Bailey, who 
has been regarded as one of the leaders of the party in 
this neighbourhood, and who always occupied a conspi- 
cuovs position in those periodical displays of Chartist 
strength and feeling got up in honour of Mr. O’Connor, 
on the occasion of his visits to Manchester, was brought 
before the borough magistrates on Tuesday, on a serious 
charge of felony. It appeared that the prisoner had been 
on terms of intimacy with a Mrs. Consterdine, residing in 
Portugal-street, Oldham-road, and that, taking advan- 
tage of her absence from home, he entered the house by 
forcing open the back-door, broke open a box, and took 
therefrom & purse containing a considerable amount of 
gold and silver. He was seen in the house, moving about 
jn an apparently stealthy manner, by a neighbour, who 
stated what she had seen when Bailey was apprehended, 
and a crooked sixpence found in his possession was 
identified as a part of the stolen money. In the course 
of the examination it transpired that the prosecutrix had 
been robbed a short time previously of 8/. or 10/., and 
that on that occasion the prisoner evinced extraordinary 
sympathy for her loss. He made minute inquiries as to 
where she kept her money, 
under the pretext of obtaining 
some clue which might enable him to reach the guilty 
parties, but in reality, as it now appears, for the purpose 
of following their example. He was committed for trial 
at the next Sessions.—The Rev. Father Mathew arrived 
in this town on Wednesday Jast, and since that period has 
been occupied upwards of nine hours a-day in administer- 
ing the pledge of total abstinence to the people of Man- 
chester. He was assisted by the united efforts of the 
Protestant and Catholic teetotallers of Manchester, who 
merged, for the occasion, their religious differences, in 
the desire to promote the object in which they were 
agreed. Many of those who received the pledge at the 
hands of the rev. gentleman had previously been total 
abstainers 5 but as some notions of peculiar sanctity are 
held respecting the person of Father Mathew, the pledge 
was renewed in order to ensure the reception of his bene- 
diction. Up to Saturday evening 18,000 persons took 
the pledge. On Sunday it was administered to 30,000, 
| and on Monday and Tuesday to 32,000, making in alla 
| total of 80,000 pledged teetotallers in Manchester. Of 
| these there are 4,500 infants, 3,000 of whom belong to 
| the St. Patrick’s district, a part of Manchester princi- 
| pally inhabited by the Trish. 
Portsmouth.—The Lords of the Admiralty have decided 
| upon building a new class of brigs, of 12 guns, which will 
supersede the old 10-gun brigs, so long known as the 
“floating coffins.’ The new 12-gun brigs are to be 
armed with ten 25 cwt. 32-pounders, and two 16-pounders. 
It is stated that Mr. White, of Cowes, is to give a design 
for a brig of the new class, and that Mr. Fincham, of 
| Chatham, is also to give a design. Mr. White is the 
builder of the Waterwitch, formerly a yacht belonging to 
the Earl of Belfast, and which was brought into the ser- 
vice, and since noted for its powers of sailing, and con- 
sequent successes on the coast of Africa in the capture of 
slaves. Mr. Fincham is the builder at Chatham Dock- 
yard. Itis also understood that the Surveyor of the Navy, 
Sir W. Symonds, will furnish a design. 
Sheerness.—On Monday another jury was empanelled 
in the Royal Dockyard on the body of Miss Barton, 22 
years of age, the daughter of a clergyman residing on the 
Isle of Sheppy, another of the unfortunate sufferers who 
severe injuries from the explosion of the 
ine on board H.M.S. Camperdown, that 
aturday evening. The deceased is the third 
sufferer who has died from the effects of this occurrence. 
The evidence adduced before the jury was similar to that 
given at the inquest on the body of Miss Yerker last 
week, upon which occasion the jury returned a special 
verdict with respect to keeping so large a quantity of 
powder out of the magazine, and hoped that the authori- 
ties would cause so dangerous a practice to be discon- 
tinued. he jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death, 
at the same time expressing their hope that the authori- 
ties would act up to the recommendation of the previous 
Ty. 
2ailways.—The following are the receipts for the past 
week :—Croydon, 3720.5 Greenwich, 847/.; Blackwall, 
1185. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1475/.; York and North 
Midland, 20237.; North Eastern, 17571; Birmingbam 
and Glocester, 21632. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 25151. 5 
Bastern Counties, 2008/.; South-Eastern and Dover, 
32,; Liverpool and Manchester, 33410. 5 Brighton, 
41121. ; Midland Counties, 46692. ; Manchester and Leeds, 
5113/.; North Midland, 92.; South Western, 80334. ; 
Great Western, 15,2332; Birmingham, 19,1057.—On 
Monday a special meeting of the London and Dover 
company was held for the purpose of taking into consider- 
ation the expediency of making a branch railway to Maid- 
stone, a the Bricklayers’ Arms in the Old 
Kent-road, and further to consider the propriety of raising 
( further capital for the purposes of the undertaking. The 
| 
chairman stated that the amount required by the directors 
was 177,777, which they proposed to raise either by 
means of loan notes, or by debentures for the Bricklayers’ 
Arms branch. A resolution to this effect was then pro- 
posed, and after some discussion as to the terms upon 
which the money was to be borrowed, passed with but 
three dissentients. The next business was the considera- 
tion of the construction of the Maidstone branch, which 
underwent much discussion. The chairman stated that 
the proposed line had been surveyed by the engineers, 
Messrs. Stephenson and Bidder ; that its distance from 
the main line would be about ten miles; the total esti- 
mated number of passengers 77,000/. per annum, and the 
total net income 24,2157. The proposition met with 
opposition from a few of the proprietors, but ultimately, 
on being put to the vote, was carried by a large majority. 
The other requisite resolutions having been agreed to, the 
chairman in the course of the discussion stated that within 
ten days steamboats would be plying between Folkestone 
and Boulogne, which would enable passengers to accom- 
plish the distance from London to Boulogne in little more 
than six hours and a half. The system of low fares lately 
adopted had done much to benefit the railway. He 
believed that the whole line would be opened to Dover 
before December, and that the branch line to Maidstone 
would be completed within twelve months after obtaining 
possession of the land, This statement was followed by 
aresolution that the directors should be empowered to 
borrow on loan-notes or mortgage the sum of 266,6002. 
which was carried unanimously—A special meeting of 
the Croydon Company was held this week for the pur- 
pose of giving the directors authority to raise 70,0007. by 
an issue of new shares, to enable them to complete their 
portion of the Bricklayers’ Arms extension line, the 
shares to be nominally 20/. value, at 107. each, payable in 
four instalments of 2/7. 10s. An issue of shares was pre- 
ferred to an increase of the bonded debt, which already 
amounted to 230,0002 Resolutions to this effect were 
agreed to.—On Monday a meeting, convened by the high 
constable, was held at the Town-hall, Brighton, to receive 
the report of the deputation appointed to confer with the 
directors of the Brighton Railway. The chief feature in 
the report was the communication from the directors, that 
after the Ist August the prices of the first, second, and 
