Steamboat Kent Sunk!--Eight Persons Drowned!!

We Jearn by the London, which came up yesterday noon that she run into the steamboat Kent, and sunk her ín 60 feet of water nbout five miles below Point au Pelle, in Lnke Ërie, on Monday night. - A great part of the baggage on board and the books and money of the boat went down wilh her. The passengers, with the exception of the fivo drowned, came back on the London. So fast did the Kent fill witli water and sink, after the meeting of the two boats, that il was impossible to save any baggoge, but such as the passengers caught in their hands, when they went on board the London. The names of the persons drowned ore Rev. James E. Quaw, Redford, Mich. Mr. Chauncy Osborn, Genesee, N. Y. Mr. Seth Deming, Berlín, Conn. Master 3ruce Deming, Galena, W. T. Two young ladies and a boy from near Ypsilanti, names not known. The boats are both owned by a Canada company, and were running between this city and Buffalo. Since the above was in type, we gather the following from a letter to the Advertiser: Without any formal proceedings on the subject, our passengers have endeavored to ascertain the cause of this drcadful accident and we have no doubt it occurred in consequence of the error in the pilot of the Kent attempting to pass on Ihe wrong side of the London, which brought her directly across her bow, and at this :he Engineer of the London, as soon os he saw the course of the Kent, shut off his sieam, yet his boai had too much headway, and the Kent was cut down in front of her wheel-house. We remained 5 hours with the wreek gathering floating pareéis of baggage, &c.,and attempting totow the huil ashuro, but she gradually "sunk" by the head and we were compelled to perlbrm the sad office of hoisting her flag half mast and leaving her to her fate. The London is not at all injured. Our passengers have done something to relieve the necessities of the sufferers - the ladies dividing their wardrobes and the gentlemen opening their purses.Among tit ñames oí lijóse savcd, we observe the foliowing who reside in this State: John Honeytvell, Troy, Mich. Mrs. Moore, do do Miss Reiekarfs, do ao Willei Steati, Jnckson Co., Mich. Daniel Trernble, Macomb, do Win. P. Grifón, Rcdtoni, do Wm. Walson, Bloomfield, do Mary VVatson, do do Nancy VVatson, do do Samuel VVatson, do do Esther Wctson, do do Aaror VVatson, do do 01 i ver FIcath, Flïnt, do Benjamin VVood, Southfield, do George Anderson, Cantón, do M. Easton, do Josiah Easton, do Henry Nicholson, wife and child, Commerce, Mich. Sarah Shear, Novi, Mich. Mary Gage and 2 children, Novi, Mich. Calvin R. Kuapp, wife and cliild, Commerce, Mlclw Christinn fialdy, Prairie liounde Mich. Wm. MeNulfy and wifo, Plymouth, Mich. A. W. Murrnvj and wife, Detroit, Mich. Wm. Andersan, and child, Cantón, Mich. Wm. E. Parsons, Centreville, Mich.