The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-21 00:00:00

THE BLOCKADE IN THE BALTIC.

Captain Watson's advance squadron left Kiel on
the sth inst.. and were off Moen Head on the
following morning ; but, as the wind blew hard
from the east, Capt. Watson determined on not
wasting coal by forcing the squadron against it.
Her Majesty's ships Pylades, 21, Captain
D'Eyncourt ; Sampson, 6, Captain Hand; Falcon,
17, Commander Pullen ; and Harrier, 17, Com-
mander Derriman, had anchored under Moen
Head the night before, and were compelled to
get under way when the wind shifted. On the
Imperieuse, 51, Captain Watson, C. 8., meeting
these ships, they all steamed to the northward,
and anchored north-west of the Falsterbo Light-
house, where they remained until the wind abated,
which it did in about three hours after they
anchored, when they all left, and steering to the
eastward, passed Bornholme on Friday morning,
reaching the south end of Oeland about noon,
off which they passed through large fields of
loose ice: continuing on, they passed the south
end of Gothland at midnight, arrived at Faro on
Saturday morning at nine, and found the inner
harbour completely frozen over, and great
quantities of loose ice in the outer. On the 12th
the Euryalus, 51, Captain Ramsey, C. 8., joined
them, last from Kiel ; she arrived in a snow
storm, and anchored near the Imperieuse, and
though only about two hundred yards from her,
Captain Ramsey was nearly half an hour in
cutting his way through the ice in one of
his boats to report his arrival. The squa-
dron would weigh in a day or two, and cruise
further.

THE MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.—The
anniversary festival of this excellent institution was held on
Tuesday evening at the London Tavern, under the presi-
dency of Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. The subscriptions of
the evening, we are pleased to say, presented tho largest
amount ever received at the society's anniversary, being
upwards of £1,900.
THE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.--Traffic
Statement, week ending March lb :—Total number of
omnibuses at work, 374 ; average number running daily
throughout the week, 364; total receipts, 6,2311 3s 8d;
average per omnibus for seven days, 1712 s 4d.
THE LATE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—The committee for
managing the Sussex Memorial Fund have decided upon
having erected on the new wing of the Royal Free Hos-
pital in Gray's Inn-road, a colossal statue of his late
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, as a mark of respeot
to his memory. The statue is to be executed in stone,
by Mr. John Thomas, at his studio in Paddington.
THE LATE DUEL AT BERLIN.—The Zeit of Berlin pub-
lishes a letter from the Procureur of the King, who states
that when he heard of the duel, he informed the King.
His Majesty at once pronounced himself strongly against
the duel, and ordered the Procureur to collect in all haste
the materials that could throw light upon the affair, and
bring about an understanding satisfactory to all parties.
The Procureur obeyed the orders of the King without a
moment's loss of time and with the greatest zeal, and at
the wish of his Majesty made a journey into Silesia on
.
the night of the 6th of March, order to take the neces-
sary depositions of a person implicated. Although the
Procureur had informed M. de Ilinkeldey of his depar-
ture, and of the object of his journey, the latter showed
a fatal eagerness to proceed with the arrangement for the
duel, and surrounded his proceedings with a secrecy so
absolute that all the efforts made to prevent the denoue-
ment were fruitless. M. de Ilinkuldey hid his design from
his family and from all around Mtn. An employee of the
police is the only person who appears to have been fully
acquainted with the projected duel, and of the hour at
which it would take plug.