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SMITH O’BRIEN—HIS ARREST.

The Dublin Freeman’s Journal, of the 12th of August, contains the following article in reference to Smith O’Brien and his arrest. We fully, and entirely endorse the sentiments of the Freeman regarding this ‘single- minded—honourable—unstained—unselfish— candid— and chivalrous’ man:—

Never, perhaps, within the memory of the present

THE EXAMINES.

‘Arrival of the English Mail,

THE FOURTH FOR AUGUST.

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Wharf. Though part of our country edition had been struck off when we received our English Mail papers, we stopped printing in order to give insertion to the following intelligence, which is all the papers afford.

Liverroon, Aveust 26,

DESTRUCTION OF THE OCEAN MONARCH PACKET SHIP BY FIRE.—170 LIVES LOST:

The splendid American ship Ocean Monarch, of 1,300 tons burthen, belonging to Train’s line of Boston Packets, left the Mersey early on Thursday morning, in splendid trim, with about 369 persons on board, includ- ing the crew and emigrants. As she passed through the channel, her progress was reported by the telegraph, but at length the sad news arrived that she was in flames. When the announcement was made in the Exchange News-room, great consternation prevailed, it being well

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would have done, and, of course, considerable time was unavoidably consumed in rescuing the poor unfortunates,

ThetAffonso rescued in all abount 160 persons, in- cluding 13 seamen. Of these, about 130 landed, ang the remainder preferred staying on board the frigate al]

Last night (Sunday), about 11 o’clock, the Packet, night, the Marquis de Lisboa having given directions bringing the English Mail from Pictou, arrived at the|that all who were desirous of remaining should be ac-

commodated in the best way possible.

Some of the passengers state that the fire originated by the fall of acandle amongst some spirits, but the cause is generaly ascribed to the fire in the ventilator.

All the sufferers, the greater portion of whom were emigrants from the south of Ireland, have lost their lug- gage, clothes, and everything which they Many of them when landed were nearly naked, and had borrowed coats, jackets and other articles of wearing apparel in order to, protect them temporarily from the effects of the cold.

The sufferers consisted chiefly of young men ané women, many of them going over to America to jcin their relatives and friends. ‘Those in the second cabin were principally English.

With respect to the conduct of the captain on the oc- casion, we last night heard many reports of a very

. veneration, was the public mind of Dublin more deeply|;nown that she had a large number of passengers on distressing character, and we abstained from giving | swayed by anxiety than on Sunday, the sixth day of sete aie was the ahxiety to ae any Sidings currency to them; but further inquiry this morning only August—a day of remarkable import to Ireland—the)| whatever of the vessel, but it was not till the arrival, confirms what we heard last night. All with whom we day that gave birth to Daniel O’Connell, and a prison tO} shout half-past five, of the Queen of the Ocean yacht, have conversed describe his conduct as most unsea- Smith O’Brien. belonging to Thomas Littledale, Esq., that the extent of manlike and cowardly. If half of what we have heard ii No sooner had the depressing intelligence that Smith|the calamity was known. be true, a most searching inquiry should be made into m | | G’Brien had been apprehended and committed for!” ‘The scene which presented itself to Mr. Littledale on| 5s conduct, many lives having been saerificed in con- ; ‘high treason’ been diffused, than anxious enquirers) nearing the vessel was of the most appalling and harrow-| Sequence of his leaving the ship, instead of remaining flocked from every quarter of the city to learn the par- ing description. The flames were bursting with immense with his crew to endeavour to save the lives of those ! ticulars ofan event fraught with so many painful feel- fury from the stern and centre of the vessel. So great who had been entrusted to his care. He is spoken of ' ings and recollections. was the heat in these parts that the passengers, male|!9 terms of the deepest reprobation; and one of the | ‘There was no difference of feeling where a common|,n4 fomale, men, women, and children crowded to the|P@ssengers declared to our reporter this morning, that . sentiment of sympathy for suffering and respect for the/ fr_ part of the vessel. Their piercing and heart-rend- his conduct was such that if he had a pistol he would i private worth and high and honourable character of the|i,4 shrieks for aid were carried by the breeze across have shot him through the head. devoted man filled alike all bosoms—There was no €X-|1h¢ blue waters. In their maddened despair women| One person on board lost 800. and his wife and child.

. | . ae Conservatives, ee and aoe jumped overboard with their offspring in their arms,and| The vesse) was the property of Messrs. Enoch Train q - a a rca aan h es aa j a ee of’sunk to rise no more. Men followed their wives in| & Co., of Boston, and was fully ensured. Her cargo : Mies Sal =— ian - 4 y if oc a eae frenzy and were lost. Groups of men, women, andjconsisted of 700 tons of iron, a large quantity of salt, | JCM WHE GES BFEOPSUUSS oe a self sacrificing devo-|«}i)dren also precipitated themselves into the water, in}and some dry goods. The Prince de Joinville and the | tion—a quality a8 rare as i 18 om and which always the yain hope of self-preservation, but the waters closed| Duc d’ Aumale behaved most gallantly, humanely, and parr dpcrider seme: eons dmeeperine sie Mie worst | many of them for ever. The flames continued to|charitably, using their best exertions to rescue the suf- rected or misapplied, of better times, and of more heroic rage with increased fury. In a few minutes the mizen-|ferers from impending death, and distributing all the deeds than fal) to the lot of these degenerate days. mast went overboard--a few minutes more, and the! money they had with them amongst the unfortunes, and

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of Sunday, or of the few preceding days. Itis enough to know that they have ended in the committal—for the highest offence known to the Jaw—of a man as single-

minded, as honorable, as unstained, and unselfish, as

candid and.as chivalrous as ever trod the Irish soil.

‘Those who most differ with Smith O’Brien, who place

themselves in the strongest antagonism to the principles

which he advocated, must accord to him the possession | of the highest qualities and noblest virtues which adorn|

man. Men who cannot ascend beyond the low and

vaigar Jevel of their own baseness, will, of course, affect

¢> recognise in William Smith O’Brien qualities of an »pposite character. With those men we cannot argue

course, crowded still further forward. To the jibboom they clung in clusters as thick as they could pack —even one lying over another. At length the fore- mast went overboard, snapping the fastenings of the jibboom, which, with its load of human beings, dropped into the water, amidst the most heart-rending screams, both from those on board and;those;who were falling into the water. Some of the poor creatures were enabled again to reach the vessel, others floated away on spars, but many met with a watery grave.

—we shall not argue—we will not vindicate Smith In about an hour and a half after the yacht reached (’Brien’s personal character from the motives with the vessel, the Brazilian steam-frigate Affonso, which

which such men seek to asperse his fame. We are| “8 out, we believe, on a trial trip, came up. She an-

e ntent to leave his personal reputation in the hands of

chored immediately to windward, and close to the

ven his political adversaries, sure and certain that|>Urming vessel. She got a rope made fast to the Ocean

when the heat of present contention shall have subsided --when the mists of prejudice, raised by recent events,

Monarch, and by the use of the said rope, her boats were enabled to go backwards and forwards to the

shall have passed away, men will deal more justly with | P¥zning vessel with great facility, and by this means a

his fame, and be slow to ascribe to mean or unmanly

motives, however they may otherwise disapprove or

condemn, the acts of Wiliiam Smith O’Brien.

large number of persons were saved. The Prince of Wales steamer, which was on her passage hence to Bangor, came up shortly afterwards, and, with the New

Mae act--the last free act of Smith O’Brien—illus- World packet-ship, bound for New York, sent boats to yes more powerfully than the fabricated calumnics of the rescue of passengers, and were the means of saving

» thousand London ‘special reporters, the spirit that

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raved the conduct of this high hearted man—an act The Queen of the Ocean remained alongside till three

worthy of his ancient name—worthy of his own reputa-

\.on, and honorable to the country of his birth.

o'clock. At that time the vessel was burnt near to the water’s edge, and there were only a few of the passen-

During e whole fortnight Smith O’Brien escaped the Ze8 08 board, several boats being along side endeavour-

not and vigilant pursuit of power, and its ten thousand

ing to take them off.

‘ened men. He found safety and refuge in the cottage| he Brazilian frigate Affonso was out on a pleasure

ofthe peasant. But when he discovered that to ‘har-

excursion. She was commanded by the Marquis d’

nour,’ ‘shelter? or ‘aid’ William Smith O’Brien, would) Lisboa. There,was also on board the Prince de Joinville, involve the party extending such ‘aid, shelter, or har- his lady and suite, the Duke and Duchess d’Aumale,

yur im the tremendous penalties of high treason, he »t once resolved to absolve his poorer countrymen from

the Brazilian Minister, the Chevalier d’Lisboa, Admiral Grenfell and daughters, and other distinguished indi-

‘ performance of that instinctive duty of the Irish viduals. When the Affonso discoverec the Ocean

rice—hospitality—which the cautionary proclamation 14 converted into a legal crime, he vowed that no man

Monarch, no time was lost in bearing down to her, and it was intended to enchor under her bow, but the wind

ould suffer for having extended to him the shelter of changed a little, and prevented this from being accom-

Ȣ humble roof-tree. _ Yo this magnanimous resolye is due the arrest at Nvarles. Wearied and worn from long and painful

plished. Four boats were, however, at once lowered, and were soon followed by the large paddle box boat. The Marguis d’Lisboa jumped into; one, and Admiral

watching, and fearing that to accept the protection of Grenfell into the other, and were untiring in their ex- ‘he peasant’s fire-side might direct the vengeance of|€ttions to save the poor people. The Prince de Joinville

the jaw on the innocent, he determined never again to ‘ay his head beneath roof other than his own; and in pursnance of that stern and heroic resolution, he turned hail, ars

careless of personal consequences—provided only the ininey end the ruin fell upon himself alone.

ENorts were being made throughout the Union for ve relief of the Albany sufferers. Four Mercantile houses in New York had subscribed the munificen sum

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stripped his coat, and was perfectly assiduous in assist- ing the passengers on board the frigate. The heat was ivery intense, and even to those on board the boats

wandering footsteps once more towards home—|®!ongside was very oppressive. What it must have been

te those who were crowding on the poop and bowsprit of the vessel], none can tell but those who experienced it, It was sufficient, however, to make them jump into the water, seeking succour from one element, by taking shelter in another equally as destructive, but far less agonizing in its effect. From the crowd of human beings m the water clinging to the spars, &c., the boats were

a it is not now for us to dwell upon the painful event) ,oinmast shared the same fate. There yet remained! particularly rewarding those who had assisted them in ! the foremast. As the fire was making its way to the|their endeavours. ‘The Princess was naturally dread- fore part of the vessel, the passengers and crew, of fully affected with the frightful appearance of all around.

Too much praise cannot be given to Admiral Grenfell for his coolness and bravery.

DREADFUL HURRICANE ON THE EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND.

On Friday night, about one thousand boats, each man- ned by five fishermen, left the various ports of the east coast of Scotland, betwixt Stonehaven and Fraserburgh, forthe herring fishery. When at the offing, at about an average distance of ten miles, and the nets.down, the wind, which had continued during the day at the south and south-west, suddenly chopped out to the south- east with rain. About 12 o’clock it blew a gale, the rain falling in torrents, and the night was so dark that none of the land lights could beseen. As soon as the gale came some of the fishermen began to haul their nets, but the sea ran so high that most of the fleet had to run for the shore to save life. At Fraserburgh, the boats being to leeward of Kinnaird’s head, which forms the entrance tothe Murray-frith, were less exposed than the boats on the southward, and managed to get @ landing without loss of life ; but at the Peterhead, which is the easternmost point of the coast, and altogether ex- posed to an easterly gale, seventy out of the four hundred boats that were fishing there are {missing, and there 1s too much reason to fear that most, if not all of them, are wrecked or sunk. At daybreak on Saturday morning the scene that presented itself along the shore between the Buchanness lighthouse and the entrance to the south harbour, was of the most appalling description. The whole coast fora mile and a half was strewed with wrecks and the dead bodies of fishermen. Twenty three corpses were carried into Peterhead before 9 o'clock, and at the time the latest accounts left others were being constantly thrown eshore among the wreck on the sands or the rocks. Forty boats were wrecked within the circuit of halfa mile, and so sudden and awful was the catastrophe that no means of succouring or saving the distressed and perishing fishermen could be devised. It is calculated that along the coast not fewer than one hundred lives are lost. The storm seems to have’ been very general. In the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland numbers of large forest trees were torn up out of the roots; the stacks ofcorn 19 the harvest field were scattered fur and wide, and con- siderably damaged, and hundreds of bushels of apples and other fruits, which are not ripe, were scattered from the trees, raany of which were blown down while others were much shattered. All the rivers were much swollen. The Stonehaven Journal says, several boats have been altogether wrecked; and in numerous cases the whole of the fishing materials lost, while there are scarcely any Of them but have sustained damage in some shape or other. Many lives have been Jost. Similaraccounts

iunable to get as close to the vessel as they otherwise) come from Johnshaven, Wich, and the Isle of Man.