The Wreck of the "Royal Charter" / Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original Matter

BY FRANK FOWLER, LATE OF HER MAJESTY’S CIVIL SERVICE, NEW SOUTH WALES. AUTHOR OF “SOUTHERN LIGHTS AND SHADOWS,” “DOTTINGS OF A LOUNGER,” ETC.
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND CO., 47 LUDGATE HILL. 1859.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.
This little book is prepared under the conditions of saving the Mail which leaves England on the 12th, and of being a complete narrative of the Wreck. The one condition is adverse to the other; but I have endeavoured to meet them both.
London, November the Eighth, 1859.
“Forth from the polar caverns of the snows,
Dripping with winter, leapt a northern storm,
And shook himself, and she lay buried white....
Oh! and we were homeward bound!”
Balder.

The prints of Tuesday, the 25th of October, contained this brief telegram:—