Richmond Enquirer

Carolina, presiding. No case of much importance came
up for decision at this term, and the Court adjourned on
Monday, the 14th inst.—Ib.

(From the New York Courier and Enquirer)

We are now enabled to lay before our readers some additional particulars of the loss of this unfortunate ship,
and to make some correction in the accounts which have already appeared in relation to it. These have been derived from the captain himself, and from individuals near the spot where the disaster occurred.

SHIP BRISTOL.

After a prosperous voyage, the Bristol made the Highland lights, bearing N. N. W., at a quarter before eight o'clock last Sunday evening, and at half past ten she was rounded to, with lights hoisted for a pilot. At 1 o'clock, Capt. McKown ordered the ship brought to the wind, then blowing fresh from the S. E., and stood off shore under her three top sails, fore and main spencer and jib. At a quarter before four on Monday morning, she brought up on Rockaway Shoals, five miles west of the Pavilion, it being extremely dark and thick.— The shock was so light, that it occasioned but little alarm on board. The wind now gradually increased till it blew a gale, and the sea breaking violently over the vessel, her officers advised the passengers to go below, as a place of greater safety. About an hour afterwards, a tremendous wave struck her, sweeping boats, bulwarks and every thing moveable from the deck, carrying away the hatches which had been secured down, and in an instant filling the ship with water. Of eighty-two steerage passengers, who were all below at the time, scarce a quarter of them, and those were close to the hatchways, had time to reach the deck, the rest all perished. without a man from them being heard. The survivors lashed themselves to the rigging, the railing around the masts, and every spot which afforded them a shelter from the raging sea. At day-light the main mast was cut away by the crew, in hopes that the ship would lie easier, and at least hold together till the crew and remaining passengers could be saved.

From the shore, about a quarter of a mile distant, the wreck had been seen at break of day; but the surf ran too high to afford her any assistance. Towards noon, it being low water, the surf had naturally subsided, and a boat manned by four men, put off from the beach and succeeded in reaching the ship. This boat was able to make the ship twice, and brought safely on shore all the females and children that were alive. The surf then again became so high, that no further assistance could be given until the following midnight: in the meantime, the ship broke in two, and shortly after, the foremast went by the board, carrying with it Mr. Donnelly, and the two Mr. Carltons, and several others, who were lashed to it. Mr. Burtshall had also secured himself to this spar, but caught one of the boats as he was falling, and by that reached the bowsprit, from which he was rescued by the boat. The mizzen mast was shortly after carried away, but those who were clinging to it, had time to leave it and fasten themselves to the taffrail, where with three lashed to the weather quarter, they remained until relieved, the sea all the while breaking over them.

On shore, all supposed that not a soul remained alive on the wreck, broken up as it was. Some faint sounds of cries of distress, however, occasionally reached them through the bellowings of the storm, and at midnight, the surf having subsided, the boat once more ventured to the ship, from which in three or four trips, she brought on shore all who now live to tell this sad story of disaster.

Capt. McKown was the last to leave the wreck. He had been urged by the boatmen to go on shore before, but resolutely refused. He is now ill from fatigue and exposure, at the house of the wreck-master, about seven miles from the scene of his misfortune. He has saved nothing, not even the ship's papers, and came on land with only his vest and pantaloons. Mr. Donnelly had been urged to leave the vessel in the first boat, but declined taking the room of any of the females.

For seven miles the beach is strewed with fragments of the wreck. Last night about twenty bodies had drifted ashore, which had been interred by order of the Coroner, who remained in the vicinity." In the pockets of them seventy sovereigns were found, and are now in possession of the Coroner. We would, however, if it were in our power, add that the property of others was also respected. From the great length of the beach on which the bodies are washed, it is impossible to keep any guard, and consequently the corpses are immediately stripped of every thing valuable about them. The beach is filled with wagons coming from a distance of twenty or thirty miles, the people who came in them, are watching like cormorants for their prey. Our Reporter, in riding along, saw a body come ashore, and the first thing on which these harpies place their hands, were the pockets.

The names of the cabin passengers are, Mrs. Hogan, widow of the late Michael Hogan, Esq. of this city, and her daughter, Mrs. Donnelly and Miss Hogan, and the husband of the former, whose fate we have already mentioned, Two Mr. Charltons, of Bristol, England, who likewise perished, and Mr. Burtshall.

The number of steerage passengers saved, cannot be exactly ascertained, as many of them wandered away in different directions, as soon as they landed. Captain McKown estimates, however, the number who have perished, at between sixty and seventy.

Of the crew, two sailors, two stewards, and one cabin boy, were drowned. One of the stewards jumped overboard, and attempted to swim ashore, but failed in the attempt.

The following are the names of all the steerage passengers who it is positively known are drowned: Mrs. Andrews, son and three daughters: Mrs. White and family: Mr. Braham and children: Mr. Ballint: Mr. Burko and sister: Mrs. Lacy: Mr. Graham and nephew: Mr. Wise: Mrs. Peasley and child; Mrs. Mackanmon; three kins and one boy.

Twenty-five casks of whiskey, two bales of carpeting and 105 crates of earthenware, are the whole of the cargo that has drifted ashore. The remainder will probably be a total loss. The two lighters sent down by the underwriters, under care of Capt. Streck, are lying about a mile from the wreck, and under the circumstances of the case, cannot be of the slightest use.

It is but justice to add, that notwithstanding the sufferings of the surviving passengers, they speak of Captain McKown's humane and intrepid exertions to have them safely landed, in the highest possible terms; imputing to him no blame whatever for the loss of the vessel.