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7 Hannah Whitehead, Miss Janet Colquhoun Jamieson, Glasgow, Isabella Duncan, Liverpool, James Gibbons, Glasgow, Thos. Devlin, Glasgow, J.T. Rennie, Aberdeen, Miss Omer, do, John McCall, Glasgow, James Lyall do, Alexander Lyall, do, Wm. McKenzie, Liverpool, Wm. M. Moss, do, Richard Spencer, do, Mrs John Pearce, Capt. M'Kechnie, Greenock, Mrs M'Kechnie. Miss Farquharson, Paisley, J. Connah, New York, L. Gladstone, Liverpool, Mrs Gladstone and family, do, T. Williams, do, J. C. McNeill of India, A. M'Neill, do, Miss White, C. Sorley, Wm. Bond, Glasgow, C. Martin, Mrs Hunter, Port-Glasgow, E. Colquhoun. J. A. Pritchard, Liverpool, P. Alston, Glasgow, P. Marra, Staffordshire, J. Biggatt, W. Gardner, Glasgow, Mrs W. Gardner, Rev. Mr Clark, Manchester, Jas. Walker, Glasgow, J Oldman, Somersetshire, Miss Woolfield, Glasgow, John Tait and son, do, John Walker, John Mills, Liverpool, Henry Thomson, do, A. Forbes, Stirling, R. Bell, Truro, W. Kelly, Dartmouth, James Payne, do, J. Merrilees. Paisley, Duncan Campbell, Glasgow, P. Ramsay, Liverpool, Wm. Merrilees, do, Mrs Wm Merrilees, do, Mr Thomson, Glasgow, Mrs Thomson, do, Margaret O’Brien, M. E. Nicholl, Liverpool, John Stewart, Glasgow, Mr Fleming and two nephews, do, Mr John Cameron, do.

The following are the names of those lost:—

Dr Burns of Glasgow, Mr Hume, do, Mr and Mrs M Neill of Colonsay. Miss Peughe, daughter of the Rev. Mr Penghe, Paisley, the stewardess, infant child of Mrs Merrilees, Liverpool, Mr W. Marchbank, Glasgow, Mrs and Miss Splatt, Miss Mary Ann Splatt, and two sisters, Mr Bennett, Chester, Mr Jago, Liverpool, Mr Robby, two children named Fraser, Mr Ross, Glasgow, A Graham, steward, John Pearce, Liverpool, Miss Morris, niece of Dr Burns of Liverpool, Jas. Martin, Andrew Walker, ship’s carpenter, --- Dunn, cabin boy, Mrs Hurst, child and servant of Mrs Whitehead, Miss Nicol, Liverpool.

During the brief but fearful and eventful period between the ship going down and the deliverance of the survivors, many acts of heroism and galantry were performed. One of these was the case of a child who came up to Glasgow in its mothers arms by the Tartar,  who was found by a passing swimmer floating on the water, just as a boat loaded to the gunwale with the saved was crossing his track, he seized the infant and jerked it among the people on board. The child was consequently saved,