The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-07 00:00:00

SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OP LIFE.

By the telegrams and Lloyd's letters, a very painful
list of losses at sea during the heavy gale of New Year's
Day is announced. In one instance there is every
reason to believe that a London and Gottenburg steamer
foundered with all hands ; another large ship, laden with
a valuable cargo from China, has been wrecked on the
French coast; a fine New York ship has been lost in
the Channel with many lives, and several other vessels
have been dashed to pieces on the coast, every soul be-
longing to them bein'g /est.
Respecting the steamer, Lloyd's agent at Cromer
writes to the effect that several light articles had been
cast on to the beach to the southward of that place
during the night of Tuesday and the following morning,
Among the papers found were some letters addressed to
Mr. George Duffiel—one from Julia Duffiel, his mother,
and another from J. Hampton, of the Dolphin screw
steamer. Also some small account books belonging to
the Scandinavian steamer, the last entry of which is for
the consumption of some provisions on the 26th Dec.,
1860, on the vessel's nineteenth voyage homeward from
Gottenburg, In one page of the book was written
"Captain Anderson," There were also some cases of
lucifer matches marked " Jonkopings, Tandsticker.
Sold by Bryant and May, sole agents, 133, Tooley-street,
London. About eighty long oars or sweeps had
also been picked up. The agent added that he feared
the vessels to which these things belonged must have
been lost on the Hasborough sand. By the steward's
book the crew seemed to number sixteen or eighteen
hands, and the vessel had accommodation for twenty-
four passengers. A telegraphic communication since
received from Hull states that the Scandinavian steamer
was safe at that port, but that the Kingston screw
steeamer was missing, she having left Gottenburg on
the 27th of December, and was due in London on
Saturday, and that nothing had been heard of her since
her departure. From the circumstance of the cargo,
especially the lucifer matches and oars, shipped in the
Kingston, exactly corresponding with the articles picked
up, as also a boat having come ashore at Mundesley,
near Cromer, bearing the name of Kingston, there is
but little hope of her safety.
Late on Tuesday night the New York and London
freight ship Bostonian, 1,100 tons, Captain Brookman,
Was totally lost on the Honois Rocks, about a mile and
a half on the west side of the island of Guernsey, when,
melancholy to relate, the commander and several of his
crew, with several other shipwrecked mariners, whom
the ill-fated ship had previously taken on board, perished.
The Bostonian was a very fine ship, belonging to New
York, and was bound to London, with a valuable cargo
of wheat, cheese, flour, and general merchandise.
On the same district of the French coast, between
Jersey and Port Bail, and on the same day, the home-
ward bound ship Amoor, 1,344 tons register, from Ma-
nilla to London, is reported to have been lost.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON,
CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY.

An accident of an alarming character, which unfortu-
nately, resulted in the death of one of the passengers,
happened on Friday, on the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway to the 9.55 express from Victoria sta-
tion, which is due at Sittingbourne at 11.27. The train
was five minutes late at starting, and by the time it
reached the spot where the accident occurred was half
an hour behind its time. After leaving the Rainbam
station there is a sharp curve in the line before arriving
at the junction of the Sheerness and Sittingbourne
line with the London, Chatham, and Dover, and it was
at this point that the accident took place. The train
was composed of a guard's break-van, two third, two
first, and two second-class carriages, another guard's van
being the last. After the train had arrived within
about a mile of this station the tire of one of the
wheels of the first guard's van, next the engine, flew
off ; this immediately threw the break-van off the
line, dragging with it a third-class, and also a first-
class carriage following. The third-class carriage was
the one which received the greatest injury, but fortu-
nately it had only three occupants, one of whom, a
warrant-officer named Patterson, who was on his way
to Sheerness, received the greatest injuries, his body
being mangled in a truly frightful manner. On the
instant of the carriage in which the deceased was a
passenger being thrown off the line the unfortunate
man was dragged for about 100 yards beneath the
carriage, whereby both his legs were cut off, and his
body otherwise frightfully mutilated. Two of the
carriages were turned completely over on the space
between the up and down lines of metals, and the body
of the unfortunate passenger was so firmly wedged
beneath the third-class carriage that it was fully an
hour before the wreck of the carriage be cleared and
the sufferer extricated. When released he was still
alive and sensible, but suffering the most excruciating,
agonies. The unfortunate man was immediately re-
moved to the Railway Hotel, adjoining the station, where
he was promptly attended by several of the surgeons of
the town, including Dr. Morris, Ms. Ray, and Mr.
Sutton, but he expired about three hours after the
occurrence. The body, up to a late hour yesterday,
had not been identified.

The remaining passengers in the train appear to have
met with remarkable escapes. Richardson, the guard in
the first van, although very much bruised and shaken,
is not dangerously injured, and the two other passengers,
both women, who were in the same carriage as the de-
ceased, escaped with only a few bruises.

The Rnyal Mail steamer Asia, which sailed on Satur-
day for New York, took £330,000 in specie.

THE NORTH SNORE BAZAAR.—The subscribers and
friends of the North Shore National School will be glad
to learn that the above bazaar has passed off with
decided success. The ladies were most energetic and
untiring in their praiseworthy endeavours to raise a
handsome sum, and spared neither time nor expense to
attain their good object. Great taste and elegance was
displayed in their decorations of the room, &c,, and in
the arrangements.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.-3rd Bat-
talion of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—George Mappett,
gent., to be Adjutant from the 16th Novembr, 1860.—
Artillery Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—W.
M'Cheane, gent., to be assistant. surgeon, vice C. C.
Mitchinson, resigned ; Second Lieutenant R. A. John-
son to be First Lieutenant, vice J. H. F. Harrison,
resigned.-10th Lancaseire Rifle Volunteer Corps—
Ensign A. R. Hinde to be Lieutenant; J. Storey, gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Hinde, promoted.
COAST GUARD CHANGES.—The changes in the Coast
Guard which were announced as likely to take place,
are to take effect immediately ; and Captain E. A.
Inglefield goes to the Majestic, Captain Geo. E. Patey
to the Pembroke, and Capt. Jas. Willcox, C. 8., to the
Dauntless.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The total amount received for
the week is £482,866, on 9,583 miles, which produces
an average or zao ua, per mile. For the corres-
ponding week last year, the receipts were £464.809,
which, having been earned on 9,2621 miles, gave an
average of £5O 3s. 7d. per mile. The increase, there-
fore, in the revenue of the week is £18,057, or only
4s. 2d. per mile. The increase exhibited on the Brighton
is £1,167 ; Eastern Counties, £1,296; Great Western,
£460 ; Great Northern, £2,116 ; South Western, £563 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, £1,257 ; North Eastern,
£1,049 ; Manchester and Sheffield, £B6B ; Midland,
£4.390; Caledonian, £945 • Edinburgh and Glasgow,
£227 ; Glasgow and South Western, £416; Scottish Cen-
tral, £5O ; Newcastle and Carlisle, £6lB ; Dundee and
Perth, £52; Great North of Scotland, £l9; Scottish
North Eastern, £lO ; Midland Great Western, £265 ;
Ulster, £5B ; Waterford and Limerick, £l2 ; Great
Southern and Western, £661 ; South Yorkshire, £643;
South Devon, £721 ; Bristol and Exeter, £120; 'West
Hartlepool, £lBB ; North Staffordshire, £lB4O ; Corn-
wall, £142; East Anglian, £137; Ulverstone and Lan-
caster, £141; Shropshire Union, £245; West Midland,
£391 ; Maryport and Carlisle, £2OB. The lines on
which a decrease is shown are somewhat numerous ;
London and North Western, £6,011 ; South Eastern,
£174 ; North London, £202 ; Blackwall, £11; North
British, £lBB ; Edinburgh and Perth, £506 • Dundee
and Arbroath, £BO ; Taff Vale, £559 ; Stocktoni and
Darlington, £197 ; South Wales, £749 ; Birkenhead,
£8 ; and Monmouthshire, £ss.—Railway Ti»zes.
PRIVATE TELEGRAPHS.—The first electric telegraph
devoted to private use, it is believed, in the south of
England, has just been erected at Southampton, connect-
ing the two establishments of Messrs. G. Phillips and
Co., situate respectively in the High-street, near the
Bargate, and in Canute-road, opposite to the entrance to
the docks. The primary object•of the firm in the erec-
tion of the telegraph was to effect speedy communica-
tion between their two establishments, but arrangements
have been made with the Electric Telegraph Company
to enable the public generally to avail themselves of its
use. An office will be opened at the High-street esta-
blishment, in all respects under the same regulations as
to privacy, rates, charges, &c., as the company's offices,
for the transmission of messages to and from the docks
and all parts of the world. As it is situated in the
centre of the town, in the immediate neighbourhood of
the banks, solicitors' offices, &c., it will be a great
accommodation to the public. The wire extends over
the housetops a total distance of about a mile, and has
five supports in all, each post being fitted up as a flag-
staff, and is carried into the Electric Telegraph Com-
pany's establishment at the railway terminus.
WOMAN AND TEMPERANCE.—During the year the
labours of those devoted women, Mrs. Wightman, Mrs.
Fison, and Mrs. Bayley, have been attended with the
happiest results. Under their gentle influence and
delicate tact many of the most unpromising have been
reclaimed—not only saved from the horrors of intem-
perance, but gathered under the sacred and sanctifying
influences of religious teaching. Their original inten-
tion was not to recommend total abstinence, but to aim
. directly at religious instruction. Their labours have,
however, proved to a demonstration that our temperance
reformation is an indispensable auxiliary in the reclama-
tion of many interesting class, and they have opened
up the magnificent idea of a woman's mission as a
special instrumentality in the great work of the drunk-
ard's reformation; and there are in many quarters signs of
a disposition to follow their noble example, and to carry
out the sublime mission they have so happily indicated
and so successfully illustrated.— Weekly Record.

DESPERATE SUICIDE.-Mr. Payne hald an inquest
at the Angel Tavern, Webber-street, Blackfriar's-road,
touching the death of Mr. Charles Sudds, aged 53, of
No. 16, Webber-row, Blackfriar's-road. The deceased
was au engineer, and had lately been very low spirited,
in consequence of the slackness of business. On Wed-
nesday morning, about half-past three o'clock, he told
his wife he would fetch his rifle and shoot himself,
when the deceased commenced loading it. His wife
endeavoured to get possession of it, when he desired her
to stand clear of the rifle. She immediately ran into
the street for a policeman, when the inmates heard the
sound of firearms; and on entering the parlour, found
the deceased weltering in his blood, and his brains
scattered over the room. The jury returned a verdict,
" That the deceased destroyed himself whilst in an un-
sound state of mind."