Another boatfull of the Amazon's people has been brought home
to Plymouth. The cutter Royal Charlotte arrived at that port on Thurs- day evening, with four of the passengers and nine engineers and seamen, who were picked up in the Bay of Biscay on the evening of the wreck, Sunday the 4th instant, by the Dutch galliot Hellechina, Captain Grup- pellar, bound from Amsterdam to Leghorn. The following are the names of those now saved-
Passengers—The Reverend Wm. Blood, Mr. Bilkelly, Lieutenant Grylls, RS., Senor Juan de Cima. Crew—William Angus, second engineer ; Isaac Roberta, boiler-maker ; Michael Fox, fireman ; Angus McInnes, engineers' storekeeper ; C. Dewdney, stoker ; W. Wall, stoker; G. Webb, seaman ; H. Wright, seaman • B.. Harris, doctor's boy. M'Innes the seaman; states, that he was going from the forecastle to the forward stoke-hole, and when he had descended about three steps down the ladder, he saw flames rushing up between the starboard- boiler and the bulk-head; after that, when the hose was brought for- ward, the flames of fire were rushing up through the oil and tallow store- room and the waste store-room. This is additional evidence to negative any supposition that the fire began in the store-rooms. The seaman George Webb was at the wheel when the fire-bell tolled : at that instant he pointed out to another seaman who was at the wheel with him, the fire coming up the foremost-funnel ; "it was then issuing from this fun- nel in a flame as high as the foreyard."
We learn that the Lords of the Admiralty yesterday directed two steamers, the Confiance and the Sprightly, to sail immediately in search of possible survivors from the wreck of the Amazon. The Directors of the West India Mail Steam-packet Company provided a special train to convey the order to Plymouth, which started from Paddington about three p.m. yesterday. Pity that this was not done earlier !—Morning Minnick.
We are exceedingly glad to hear that poor Mr. Eliot Warburton, who
was in the steam-ship Amazon effected an insurance on his life for 10,0004 previously to his departure.—Morning Herald.
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