If shrivelled iron plates fail, as perhaps they may, to carry caution, then let our sea-captains read deeply of the narratives of the saved, which I must now, assuming my proper duty as compiler, proceed to set forth. And at the onset, the bitterest narrative lies in the fact that of near five hundred souls--passengers and crew--on board the vessel, the following mournfully scant catalogue contains the name of every survivor[A]:-- _Saloon Passengers._ W. H. Morse. F. Grundy. H. C. Taylor. _Saloon Passengers landed at Queenstown._ Mr. Gardner. Mr. M'Evoy. Mrs. Nahmur and child. _Third-Class Passengers (including those landed at Queenstown)._ C. M'Phiel. John Judge. W. J. Ferris. James M'Clappon. W. Russell. J. Bradbury. Samuel Granfell. Carl Bertal. N. Hegan. John Loome. S. E. Gapper. W. Bowden. _Crew._ William Foster. John O'Brien. Thomas Griffiths. William M'Arthur. George Irisher. George Suaicar. E. Wilson. Thomas Tims. Henry Evans. John Richards. James Rogers. David Stroman. William Hughes. Thomas Ellis. George M'Givrin. Owen Williams. William Draper. Thomas Cormick. John Stannard. [A] A list of the riggers who were saved will be found at p. 32. We are anxiously awaiting the next mail, in order to learn the names of those who are lost. At present the lists that have been published are limited, contradictory, and hypothetical. Each survivor has supplied the newspaper reporters with the names of just as many of his lost fellow-passengers as he could remember. You in the colony, however, will be able, with your files of papers, to complete this section of the story of the Lost Ship.[B] [B] The following is from the _Times_ of November 1st. It is only a sample of a class of advertisements that are daily appearing in the papers:-- TO the SURVIVING PASSENGERS of the ROYAL CHARTER.--Could any one inform the under-mentioned whether among the saloon passengers of that ill-fated vessel there was one named HENRY LAFARGUE, age 26? They would greatly relieve the anxious minds of that gentleman's relatives. There appeared in the Times of Thursday, in the list of the lost, the name of La Fargur; in Friday's, M. La Forgue; and in Saturday's, La Fargol, which might all have been intended for Lafargue. Address, Miss Lafargue, No. 2 Clarges-street, Piccadilly, W. The narrative which is at once the completest and most touching is that of Mr. Russell, which takes the following historical form:--