事 S. W. edge of the western sea-reef, and the tide of flood beginning to make, and my situation being pointed out, saw it would not do to stand to the northward, wore round to E. and South as directed by Horshburg's instructions; when so, our water seven fathoms for 15 to 20 minutes, then quarter less seven a few casts; then six, which also agreed with the chart; presently five fathoms, ordered the helm hard a-port, and hauled close to the wind; the sentence was barely finished, when, on the next cast of the lead, the ship struck in three fathoms; one minute had not elapsed from her first striking before she was completely bilged; cut away the anchor to keep her bow from drifting, that her quarter might beat round to form a lee side to get the boats out, which turned out so. No time nor possibility of getting up tackles; hooked on the two main lifts abaft and fore one forward. Carpenter cut away the gangway, bore her stern out, water enough on lee side of deck to float her; crew jumped in before she was off the deck, cut the rope and instantly drifted from the ship, without the means or possibility of returning. The same time the seamen were getting out and into the launch, my officers cut away the jolly-boat from the quarter, and also went away, leaving on board the wreck the master, two gentlemen passengers, and six seamen, two of which, James Ferguson and Francis Staunton, jumped overboard to swim to the boats, they being only about a cable's length off, but did not reach, being drowned. Fourteen minutes only elapsed from her first striking to the boats being cut away from the wreck. This was done when master was getting out a compass that had a cover, to go into the boat; mean time steward taking out some bottles of beer and spirits &c.; in space of twenty minutes boat out of sight from the poop. Instant death was momentarily looked for by each individual. I began to concert measures to prolong life as long as possible, seeing that in a few minutes more she would go to pieces; every following sea breaking her up, the poop-deck being the only place that held out any prospect, to endeavour to save that as much as possible became my object at the moment, and I encouraged the seamen if possible to cut away the lee mizen rigging and all ropes that had any connection with the poop, and to do it instantly before she turned over. In eight or ten minutes that was completed with one sailor and one table-knife, all the tools we could muster among us: a few minutes more she turned over; we then got on the side, lashing ourselves, and commenced cutting away the weather rigging; when done the mast remained until a tremendous sea broke on us, the mizen-mast fell, the heel of ditto cutting of the poop-deck from the other part as completely as if it had been sawed; poop then became upright, and drifted instantly away from the other part of the wreck; in ten minutes lost sight of the wreck. This took place about half-past 5 or 6 o'clock, 3 to 4 hours from the time ship struck; between 7 or 8, the sea began to break on us in such a way that it took away one of our number, the steward, Thomas Silva, carrying away at the same time all the leeside of the poop, and part of the topside a little below the tiller block, through which the chains were rove, which prevented its separation from the piece we were upon, and, by the blessing of God, proved to be the saving of our lives. 'Before midnight, the poop-deck began to break away in single planks on either side; seven or eight in the middle seemed to remain together more secure, owing to the beams under them, whereon two of our number had themselves secured, (one seaman, and one gentleman passenger, Lieutenant Warren.) About 3 AM. it was separated entirely away from the after-beam, where it had for some time only depended; the seaman asked me, if I proposed coming with them or remaining where I was. I replied, that it would make but little difference on which piece we remained, for, to all appearance, we should not want them long, but I proposed staying by the largest piece of the wreck as long as possible; with that they drifted away out of our sight, apparently westward of us; by break of day we found we could no longer stop on the piece we were on, every successive sea breaking it up, and thus could not keep our hold of it. With many struggles we got on the side of the poop that was hanging alongside by the tiller-chains, cut the strop of the block, and got clear of the after part of the wreck we were on before, which drifted presently away towards the S. E., judging by the wind, which I supposed to be at S. W.; by 7 or 8 A. M. wind moderating, began to clear away, got sight of a vessel's masts; my fellow-sufferers seemed to doubt it for the moment, but the sun breaking out, we clearly saw a ship at anchor, and the tide setting us towards her, which increased our joy and hope of deliverance from our situation, but being up nearly to our middle in water when clear of the passing sea, we had nothing to elevate for the ship to see us ; began to break off the lining boards, six feet long, to erect; found a fowling-piece, which, with the length of the ramrod and a handkerchief, we held up as high as possible, with the butt on our shoulders alternately. Mr. Teevin, the passenger, took off his shirt, and also bent it to a plank board; by about ten or eleven o'clock the ship observed us, and instantly hoisted her colours, what we had been so eagerly looking for; about one P. M. the boat reached us! our feel.. ings here cannot be described; they picked us up, and took us on board the ship Woodford, Captain Chapman, who, with the passengers and officers, received us humanely, and treated us in the most generous and hospitable manner. : When we came on board the Woodford we had the account of the two who separated from us on the piece of poop-deck at three in the morning, after having drifted away about three hours a sea upset the piece of wreck they were on, and I am sorry to state Lieutenant Warren, who could not swim, sunk, and never reappeared the seaman recovering got again on the wreck, securing himself, and drifting towards the ship Woodford, was discovered. The cutter-boat was at this same time taking us off the piece we were on as previously mentioned: they hoisted out their launch instantly, picked him up and took him on board. This ship, by the kind Providence of our Almighty God, was the saving of five of the unfortunate sufferers.' The following paragraph of news from Singapore is from the same Paper : The Resource brings a report that a serious riot had taken place at Singapore, amongst the Chinese inhabitants, in consequence of the imprisonment of one of the principal merchants of that nation, Chi-sang; the military were called out, and some of the European Artillery are stated to have been killed. The Governor, whose presence shed such happiness over the island, had re-embarked, and was living on board the Cambridge, not thinking his truly valuable life safe amongst these terrible Chinese. We need no longer wonder that they should be refused permission to land at Penang.' The following paragraphs of general news are from the Bengal Hurkaru,' of the 13th and 14th of July : Private letters inform us, that the Right Honourable the Governor-General, the Countess Amherst, and Lady Sarah Amherst, left Subathoo on the 25th of June by dawk; were expected to rest at Kurnaul on the 29th, and to proceed to Meerut the next day. The Supreme Court was crowded at an early hour yesterday morning, to hear the judgment of the bench as to the registry of the Stamp Regulation. Their Lordships delivered their judgments as we had anticipated they would do, seriatim, having first committed them to writing; and we regret to announce that the bench were unanimous in deciding on the registry of the Regulation; though on some very essential points connected with it, Sir Edward Ryan differed from the Chief and Puisne Judge, viz. on the right of petitioners against any regulation to be heard by counsel against the registry, and on the power of the Court to judge, not merely of the non-repugnancy, but the expediency, of any regulation submitted for registry. A very rare and valuable Oriental manuscript (the "Tymoor Nema,") was yesterday (July 13) disposed of, at Messrs. Leyburn and Co.'s auction, among the property of Mr. Moorcroft; it is unique for its spendid illuminations. The work is not complete, the first volume being in the possession of the King of Oude; the title-page is in the hand-writing of Shah Jehun, and it realized 450 rupees. The following account of the proceedings of the meeting held at the Town Hall, on the morning of July 18, 1827, in pursuance of Resolutions previously published, is from the 'Government Gazette ' of the following day : 'At a meeting of the Committee for erecting the statute and cenotaph in honour of the most noble the Marquis of Hastings, held this day at the Town Hall, present, The Hon. Sir C. E. Grey, T. A. Prinsep, Esq., Capt. Caldwell, The Hon. Sir Charles Grey having been requested to take the chair, stated, that his engagements in Court would prevent him from remaining during the proceedings of the Committee, when the Hon. W. B. Bayley was solicited, and agreed to act as Chairman. The following Resolutions were then moved, and unanimously adopted: '1. That an application be made by the Committee to Government for a suitable piece of ground, in some public and conspicuous situation, on which to erect the proposed building. 2. That application be made in the meantime, by the secretary, in the name of the Committee, to gentlemen residing in the country, soliciting their support and subscriptions; both from the Europeans and Natives, and that the principal authority at each station be requested to remit the amount to the treasurers. 3. That Government be respectfully requested to give permission for the proceedings of the general meeting and Committee being forwarded free of postage to the principal civil and military officers at each station in the interior. 4. That the Committee will be thankful to any gentlemen who may be pleased to favour them with plans, &c. of the proposed monument; and they request such gentlemen to communicate on the subject with either of the secretaries. 5. That Captain Caldwell be requested to act as a joint secretary, and to open a correspondence with gentlemen resident in the country. 6. That the proceedings and resolutions be translated into Persian, Bengallee, and Hindoostanee, for the purpose of general circulation among the Native inhabitants under this Presidency. 7. That the next meeting of the Committee shall take place at the Town Hall on the first Monday of November. 8. That the proceedings of this meeting be published for general information. The amount subscribed at the close of this meeting was 12,571. rupees, or about 1250l. sterling.' The Bombay Papers are as barren as usual of interesting information. The most remarkable thing we find in them is the following document put forth by a certain member of the Parsees, named therein, as to some religious dispute, which is eminently curious. It is as follows: The undersigned members of the Committee of the Shersayan branch of Parsees, feel great reluctance in trespassing on the time of the public, but they feel that reluctance in a more powerful degree as it respects the valuable time of those honourable public functionaries to whom the subject will have a reference. The subject has already been before the Indian public in the Native newspapers and other Native publications, and so far as regarded the faith and interest of those whom it particularly concerned, it perhaps might be excuseable. The subject of the dispute arose from the circumstance of a Dustoor having privately communicated his design of publishing a book relating to the Kubbee:a. An editorial and public remark in the Bombay Summachar compelled him to compile the work: however it was candidly and respectfully urged to the advocates of the other side to withhold the refutation of the work above alluded to, through periodical papers, and it was pointed out to them that such a proceeding would have the effect of stirring up the feelings of the Parsee nation. They, however, heard in vain, and instead of a temperate and sincere discussion to enlighten the people and arrive at the truth through the medium of every person's own understanding, the main points in dispute were overlooked, and a violent and irrational style of writing adopted in the newspapers. Subsequently, they invited and excited (with the malevolent design of taking advantage thereof ultimately) those who were entirely inclined to withhold discussions of a religious nature, which affect the feelings of thousands. The original language of an old book was misinterpreted in such a manner has the subject of contention been handled, whenever the progress of truth has made an impression în favour of the Shersayans proved as that truth has been from ancient authorities the natural course of histories, and particularly by the admission of the fact by the opposite party. It was then that the chief advocate of the Churiguryans upon the slightest pretence declined discussing any more in the public papers, and even refused to show the books which he cited as his own evidence, and which he previously offered to the public to lend for their perusal and satisfaction even to a distance of 2000 MILES. It is painful to the Shersayans to remember these things, but the notice of the Churiguryans, in the shape of an advertisement, in The Bombay Courier' of the 7th of July last,* has much sur * Signed by Mullah Feroz-bin Cawas, Cursetjee Ardershur, Jhangeer Ardershur, Framjee Cawajee Banajee, Banajee Byramjee, Mody Sorabjee Vacha Gatty, Fordonjee Limjee, |