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CHARLOTTETOWN, JANUARY 9, 1849.

We have been delayed issuing our Paper until to-day, ra consequence of the English Mail arriving so late in the week, and preventing our inserting a good deal of matter previously prepared.

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Second December Mail from Europe.

On Saturday morning the Courier arrived with the English Mail, which reached Halifax on Friday the 29th December, in the Europa, in 124 days from Liver- pool, after a very stormy passage.

The foreign news is of a highly important character, the most particular points of which we give beiow:—

(From the Dublin Freeman’e Journal.)

FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY.

1.058 OF SEVENTY-TWO HUMAN BEINGS ON BOARD A STEAM-BOAT SALLING FROM SLIGO TO LIVER- POOL !!

We have received from a correspondent in London- derry on whose veracity we can rely, the outlines of one ef the most horrid tragedies recorded in the annals of human crime. We must observe that it is customary for the steam-boats plying between Sligo and Liver- pool, to put in at Londonderry, in order to take on board goods and passengers. This accounts for the fact that our correspondent was enabled to be an eye witness of the horrid spectacle to which it is our painful duty to draw attention. “The Londonderry steamer,” says our informant, “ which left Sligo on Friday, had on board 105 passengers, part of whom were for America, and the other part for Liverpool. A great number of the latter, it appears, went on board for the purpose of plun- dering the passengers; and when the crew were en-

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1849.

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the vessel arrived here, by the crew, was that robbers and murderers had got into the vessel and destroyed the people ; but the appearance of the bodies at once show- ed the cause too clearly. Let the blame rest where it may, the captain and crew (with the exception of one who fled and cannot be found) are in prison here. A large number of the poor survivors are lodged in the Town Hall. Men, women, and infants, piled as they died, four and five deep, ina small steerage, presented an awful sight. The inquest is at present going on be- fore Mr. Lloyd, coroner for this city. One of the wit- nesses examined on Sunday (yesterday), states that he smashed open some portion of a panel to get egress from the hole, and called to one of the sailors that the pass- engers below were dying in heaps; the sailor “ damned him for an Irish b——r, to get out of his way or he would heave him overboard ;” he then went to the mate, and after some trouble, it is said, of the same description, succeeded in getting the sailors to release the survivors. This, however, I only give as evidence heard by me, not from the witness himself, but from hearsay.

The above are the only remarks I can with any safety make, as there are so many versions of this unfortunate occurrence that it is scarcely possible to depend on any ; however, I think I am not far from the truth.

(From a third Correspondent.) I cannot give you the entire details ; but one witness whom I heard examined on the inquest, had saved his mother and two sisters by superhuman exertion; he broke his way over the dead bodies of his fellow pass- engers. Onhis getting on deck, he called aloud for the hatches where the mere Irish were nailed down, to be opened, as they were dying for want of air. The an- swer he got was, “d—n your soul, you Irish b——r, if you don’t go down with the rest, I'll knock your brains out.” I will not trust myself to Say more; but the feel- ing here is dreadful, and I think if government does not at once order an investigation, God knows what may be the result. ‘Toany human being the sight of 75 men, women, and children, stretched as they now are in the stores of the Steam Boat Yard, the distorted features, black aa if they were taken out of an African slaver, is horrifying. One man with his three children clasped

gaged in the mxnagement of 7: omeree se a in his arms was the most appalling sight I ever witness- atorm, they mp teegt lew ee a 3 a UI! ed. So firm were his arms clasped around them they to relate, on the arrival o ch steamer at this place) .ou}4 not be seperated—their arms, legs, all entwined 7 ri eet a Dae eee aaah in the agonies of death. Mothers with their infants— ound mur ‘ “and tt . . | alli—all dead !! sizht of the deck of the steamer on which [ have this|" «Qne of the poor creatures swore that the cries o woment looked, I shall never forget. __ |*merey, mercy, Captain!! MUST have been heard on A large number of the passengers has been taken into) pn oK.? eustody, and the investigation will, of course, elicit the) "i, Belfat News-Letter published on Tuesday says: incidents of this fearful tragedy. “ Nearly all the steerage passengers on this most fa- FURTHER PARTICULARS. tal voyage were poor farmers from the neiwhbourhood (From a Corrrespondent.) of Sligo and Ballina and their families ; there were An unheard-of spectacle was witnessed at our quays about an equal number of males and females, and a con- on yesterday. The Londonderry, plying between Sligo| siderable proportion of children, many of whom are now and Liverpool, had passengers on board bound for Ame-'left fatherless and motherless. Among the survivors ica: the st om eommmenced on Saturday ; all the deck | are three children, saved out of a family of nine, Itis ae : : ‘al to say that all these passengers passengers were crammed down the steerage ; the hatch-|@/most unnecessary y *them half naked.” g es were nailed, and at 4 o’clock on Sunday morning, it) Were miserably poor, many of them 4a ; was found that suffocation had taken place. The living oe Tt atl separated from the dete, who in number} THe Cuorera still lingers about the suburbs of the amounted to 74, men, women and children. The writer metroplis, and in Scotland its ravages have not sen- ’ , .. ai of this hasty and melancholy news witnessed the scene sibly diminished. ——the sight can never leave his eyes. There were old veteran soldiers there; they declared they never, even ju the field of battle, witnessed such ascene. You eould see among the dead the father and the mother! by starvation. elasping, in the agonies of death, their dying children.| Srare or SxipsereErN Poorsovse.—The total

The captain and crew, all mostly Scotch, are in custody. number now in the Skibbereen poor-house _ a auxil- An inquest is being held to-day; but that inquest willjiliary houses, is about 4,230. Of this number, the three not restore to life 74 of the ‘mere Trish” now dead, be-| auxiliary houses in the town and at Deelis, accommodate eause forced by oppression to quit their homes. avout 950. The remaining 3,280 are dieted in the Roe (From auether Correspondent ) house, and about 50 are sent hn ee ee {hasten to inform you of one of the most, melan-| Tite Were a eT house was intended, when eholy events that perhaps ever occurred in a Christain oe a _ “odate 800. Since then healt addi. country, viz., the arrival here on Sunday morning, at} rst Dulit, to accomocs ean hatited the premises, one

if-past ten o'clock, of the steamer Londonderry, the tional timber houses have been » ’ md palf-past tea oe ‘sv iderry and Glasgow Company of which is inhabited by invalids, and into these three aa oshae aaa than sactenySee Saat beings and the main house —_ Pniseqolanene agen suffocated in the steerage. It seems the vessel left 3,280, and by night, - 80. ia de celionenaen taal Sligo for Liverpool on Thursday Jast,and that on Friday| INcrEAsE OF Pat mene ne. pemy than 4.993 morning it coming on to blow, either the passengers) in the Cork Union Wor ae eta a which went of their own accord, or were put down to the steer-| peupers, and those in a union the 4 House o eh ’ hen so down,) was originally built to contain 2,000! There are now, by the master and crew, and that wien so down: ileal y khouse, two other large and convenient

the door of the steerage and all other means of ventila-| besides the workhouse, aii aman

n th it i id/auxiliary houses provide tion were closed upon the poor people, and it Is saia/auxiiary f ‘ eovered over with edie: A leree number of cattle! Mr. Smith O’Brien, and the other ~ vere at and other deck lumber, however, were allowed to re-;Clonme!, remain at Richmone Bridewel ‘. here is a eenhé emideabes ther. that the judges of the Queen's

The eattle have arrived) very general rumour, | h tive! prisoners on the writ ere comparative

IRELAND. The Trish papers ate pregnant with details of deaths

>5 human beings are dead.| Bench are unanimous against the | op hom the blame rests|of error ; and that, in case of a unanimous decision of that court in favour of the crown, the attorney-general will

it ia a horrible * yn whe ea nene can as yet © sunt given, it is said, when

withhold the requisité sanction for the prosecution of an appeal to the House of Lords.

An ArFectine Incipent ig related by a Donega paper. A few nights since, a young boy and his sister returning from Pettigo, homeward, had to cross a moun- tain. The night was dark and stormy, and they lost their way. Next morning both were found dead from the exposure. The boy and girl lay side by side—the latter with her arm round her brother’s neck, and her flannel petticoat removed from her own person was wrap- ped round his feet. Thus did the creature, perhaps, sa- crifice her own life in a vain effort to sustain that of her brother's.

It is announced that Mr. John O’Mahony, of whose exploits in connexion with the late attempt at disturb- ance near Curraghmore and its neighbourhood so much has been heard, has escaped to France, whence he has written to his friends here.

Mr. DUFFY’S TRIAL.

The proceedings against Mr. Duffy from the honr of his arrest till the present have exhibited intense, almost tremtilous, anxiety on the part of the prosecutors, such as has not been manifested in the case of any political prisoner within our memory. The way in which he has been bandied back and forward from city to county and from county to city—the sending up three successive bills of indictment—the defamation of his character by open slander, and by secret whisperings—all these things indicate pretty clearly what intentions are entertained in hisregard. It is therefore the more urgently dmand- ed of us—of the citizens of Dublin—of the Irish people —of the executive, and of all its officers to do all that in each lies that his liberty shall not be made away with by any illegal practice, and that which the law professes —an impartial trial—he shall have, and that the admin- istration of the law be not in his case brought into dis- repute. Mr. Duffy upon his last transfer served a notice upon the city sheriff.

ITALY.—FLIGHT OF THE POPE.

The revolution in the city of Rome has terminated m thie flight of the Pope from his dominions, and the Head ‘of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the most popular and patriotic princes that ever ascended the Papal throne, is now an exile and a wanderer. After the ‘scenes described in our last, the Pope remained a ‘prisoner in his palace in the Quirinal, protected from 'persenal danger by the direct intervention of M. d’Har- ‘court, the French ambassador. | The Naples Cofrespondent of the London Times \says— | Since the assassination of M. Rossi, the Pope remained ‘a close Prisoner in the Quirinal; and the Duke d’Har- ‘cotirt, the French Representative, was compelled to re- ‘side in the palace, for the purpose of affording the pro- itection of his person and flag to the Sovereign Pontiff. ‘The business of the Government went on in the Pope's name, but without his sanction, and so far did he carry his resolution not to be dictated to, that he refused even to receive the reports, according to invariable custom from the officer of the guard. Such a state of things could not long continue, and the members of the diplo- matic corps, as is said, arranged a plan for the liberation of His Holiness, of which the immediate execution was entrusted to Count de Spaur, the minister of Bavarie,— At an early hour, previously agreed to, the Pope retired into a private room for the purpose of apparently con- ferring with the gentleman I have just named, and there he distinguished himself in the livery of the Bava- rian Jegation. In a few minutes the carriage of the mi nister was called, and the Count de Spaur, followed by the Pope, disguised as his servant, descended the grand staircase, entered his carriage, the Pope moun- ting on the box alongside the coachman. ‘The artifice succeeded—no suspicion arose either in the Quirinal or the outward gnards,and the good old man was ena- lbled to breathe the air of liberty. On his arrival at the ‘house of the Bavarian minister another transposition 'was made. The Pope took off the livery svt, and ‘dressed . himself in the usual costume of the minister’s |chaplain, or aumonier, and M. de Spaur having already j

given notice of his intention of going to Naples, and re- jcieved passports from the Governtnent, post horses ‘were coon procured, the count and his supposed chap- ‘lain took their place in the carriage, and then happily cleared the gates of Rome.

It wassome time before the escape was discovered, as of course due care was used by those in the secret

could not be disturbed. When the flight became known the ministry were thunderstruck, and, as I hear, dragoons were despatched to bring back the fugitive.— But either these raecasures failed, orthe new Govern- ment hesitated in arresting the person of an ambassa-

to say that the Pontiff was engaged in his devotions, and

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