10 MARCH 1866, Page 3

One of the mast terribly pathetic stories connected with the

sinking of the Loam has not yet appeared in print. One of the many la-lies on beard hed selecte I the ship because she was near her confinement. Under the strain of that long agony her child was born, and when the ship went down she was seen holding it above her head, as if striving with true nriternal instinct that though all mast die, her babe should die the last.