CHANNEL, Bra Apri 'THe Casquets, on which the Stella. i: reported lost, are a very dangerous group of rocks in the English Channel, about seven miles west of Alderney. There are, we believe, two light~ houses on them, but they have, never theless, been the cause of many wrecks, among them a 110-gun line-of-battle ship, the Wiefory, in 1744 They are, owing to the strength and uncertainty of the currents in their vicinity, a constant menace to vessels bound to or from the Channel Islands, or which, from fog or other causes, get out of their reckoning in_passing up or down the Channel, The regular course for vessels navigating the ferably to the north squats, but it is not y since one of the largest from Southampton, which had broken down, nearly drifted on to them. The steamer Stell, whose loss is reported by Reuter this morning, was one of the fast mail-steamers belonging to the London and South-Western way Company. She was a twin-screw boat, ste ming fully twenty knots, and making the trip between Southampton and the I un four to five hours. As she was lost on Thursday afternoon, she must have been hanging about in the fog for some hours, and with the currents that run in that part of the Channel, it would have been almost impossible for the captain to know exactly his position, though asa rule these eaptains are able to put upo notice when they leave port of the time they will arrive at their destination, which is generally right within a fow minutes. n the terrible story which the telegraph tells us in a few bald words, there is one bright patch. he di: cipline on board must have been <plosion of the boilers, and the Stella, we are told, sank ten minutes atter touching the cruel rocks, but in those few minutes most of the women and children were got safely into the boats, only enough members of the crew to take charge of those boats being saved with' them; and the eighty or more whom the inexorable sea claimed perished gallantly, for they had done what they could to save a man's first care, the women and children. tur Bioop 1s tHe Lire."—If the jen with impurities it spreads disease as it circulates through the organs of human body—L Kidneys. purities from whatever ease Serviuls, Eczema. Bad Legs, 8 1 Blood Diseases, Pimples, "and Sores of all kinds its effects are marvellous, Thousands of wonderful cures have been effected by it. Sold everywhere at Beware of w..ubless imitations and sub: stitute,
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