Elsewhere we publish further par ticulars of the stranding of tha steamer Paris on the Manacle Socks. Tha Paris—a three master, with the same number of funnels—i?as one of the best known mail boats running between England and New York. The dreaded reef of granite rocka on which the steamer ran aground lies about five and a half miles to the south of Falmouth Harbor, and near it are the sunken rocks of Penwin and Vaze. The Manacles have been the scene of many maritime disasters, a fact to which the monuments and records of St. Keverne parish church bear ample witness. It is usual for trans-Atlantic steamers to pass twelve or fifteen miles to the south of the Lizard, and it was through the omission of this precaution -that the Mohegan came to grief last year, steering a course that brought her twelve or fourteen miles to the north, ward of the Lizard. Many disasters have occurred at the Manacles, and fishermen in the neighborhood regard the spot with superstitious fear. At the beginning of the century a transport, leturning from the Penin sula, got out of her course and was wrecked there. The fishermen declare that once a year the-roll call is heard , over the spot where she sank. Another terrible wreck at this epot occurred on May Ist, 1855, when the John, an emigrant vessel, was lost, no less than 200 persons perishing in her. In the month of March, 1891, the Bay of Panama, a five, now, four masted aailiug ship was caught in a terrible blizzard, with the result that she got out of her course and was knocked to pieces on the Manacles. On this occasion twenty seven lives wtre lost. Soon afterwards the Andoh, a barque, came to grief on the same reef. On October 14th,\ 1898, the terrible foundering of the Mohegan reminded the public of the'pressing necessity for remedying the present lack of adequate warnings round the fatai reef. The Mohegan, bound, like the Paris, for New York, and carrying a total number on board of 156, struck on the Manacles soon after darkness hadjfallen, with the terrible result that over 100 lives were lost.
