The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-21 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR,

Sir Robert da;ai;;;siiddenly removed his
cordon on the land side on the 27th of November,
but on the 3d December suddenly another order
came down from Madrid, ordering an immediate
closing of all communications near the post. It
was supposed in consequence of Sir R. Gardiner's
measures. Straw and charcoal rose to prodigious
prices. Straw was sold at eight and nine dollars
per horse load, being a rise of 300 to 400 per cent.;
charcoal is in the proportion of 200 to 300 per cent.
Butchers' meat has risen 50 per cent. The stock
of cattle in private hands was only three or four
days' consumption.

IRELAND.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
DUBLIN, TUESDAY,

THE " DARGAN INSTITUTE."—The committee en-
trusted with the management of a testimonial to
William Dargan, met yesterday and adopted the
proposition of Lord Talbot de Malahide to found
with the funds contributed for that purpose a suit-
able building for the reception and exhibition of
works of art and their application to industry.
Many influential parties object to this disposition
of the funds, •as not calculated to advance the ma-
terial prosperity of a country so backward in that
sort of education, but it is hoped that the founda-
tion will tend to foster the talent for design among
the Irish people.
The case of Dowling v. Lawler, came on in the
Court of Exchequer yesterday. It involved a
charge of conspiracy against Mr. Lawler, M.P. for
Carlow, to prevent the plaintiff from voting. The
examination of witnesses had part commenced,
when, at the request of the defendant's counsel,
the Chief Baron made an order that the proceed-
ings should not be published, as another case of
the same sort was pending. The trial proceeds to-
day, when it is expected the interesting part of the
business will be elicited. I shall furnish you with
an outline, as happily, in this matter, the power so
foolishly exercised by the
,judge on the Irish bench
does not extend to England.
The Evening Mail of last night publishes the
whole correspondence between the Primate and
the Warden of St: Columba's College, Stackallan
County Meath, in which the former withdraws
'from all connection with that institution. The
reason assigned is, as I have informed you before,
the signing of thd Anti Gobart measure by the
Warder, the Rev. D. Williams. This college has
• for a long time been regarded as a hot-bed of
Puseyism, and some time ago a commotion was
caused by an attempt being made known to half
starve the pupils under the semblance of fasting.
THE WEATHER.—DISASTERS AT SEA.—The storm
from the east still continues to rage with unabated
fury. The following disasters are reported :
" The brig Darnley, of Cork, in ballast, was corn
pelled to run into Kingstown harbour on Saturday
night, and when bringing up she ran on board the
small sloop Dahlia, of 37 tons, maize laden, from
Cork, and bound to Wicklow, when, unfortunately,
the sloop went to the bottom ; crew saved. The
schooner Victoria, William Raymond master, from
Gloucester, bound to Dublin, with a cargo of bark
and iron, was run into by another brig which lay
across her bows, and, from being in collision since
three, a.m , this (Monday) morning, also foundered
at her anchors; crew saved. The steamer Eblana
broke her shaft at one, a.m., this morning, when
within eight miles of Holyhead, with the London
mails ; the life-boat was got out, and the mails put
on board the St. Columba, which was proceeding to
Kingstown ; they were transhipped to the Prince
Arthur at one, p.m., about to depart for Holyhead.
The Eblana bore up under sail, working one wheel,
and arrived safely in Kingstown at about two, p.m.
A vessel likewise went down on Sunday night op
posite the Gormanstown station of the Dublin and
Drogheda railway. No account of her name and
destination could be obtained, and it is believed
that all hands went down with her, as her masts
alone were visible when day broke. The ill-fated
vessel was a brig."
From another account we find that :—" A heavy
gale from the east has prevailed during the last
two days, by which we fear much damage may
have been done to the ships engaged in the coast-
ing trade. The only instance that has reached us
yet is that of a large brig, which was driven ashore
at Nannywater, within a few miles of Drogheda.
At the time of dispatching the intelligence the
crew had not been communicated with, but they
were observed preparing to abandon the vessel,
and boats from the shore were putting off to their
assistance. It was not ascertained whether there
was any hope of getting her afloat; but from her
position, and the fact that the sea was running
very high, it was thought most probable that she
would go to pieces. Neither the name, cargo, nor
destination of the vessel has yet been learned.
From the violence of the wind blowing on the
shore during the greater part of yesterday, the
waves at several parts of the line of railway washed
over the carriages as they passed along."
Mr. Cooney 's starch factory, at Back-lane, Dub-
lin, was burnt down yesterday, and property to
the value of £3,000 destroyed.
RIBBONISM.—Two men have been committed for
trial at next Sligo sessions, on a charge of ribbon-
ism.- The following were the pass words found in
their possession :
Question.—What is the opinion of the war ?
Answer.—The Russians will be beat.
Question.—Will France take part ?
Answer.—No ; nor England.
Question.—Keep in order ?
Answer.—lt's my 'tention.
Question.—The nights are chilly ?
Answer.—They are, and sharp.
Certes the gentry who devised those pass words
must be as intelligent as they are dangerous to the
state !

DEATH OF THE REV. DR. WARDLAW.--It is our melan-
choly duty to announce to the congregational body, the loss
of one of its brightest ornaments, by the decease of the Rev.
Dr. Wardlaw. We have received the intelligence too
recently to • do justice to so great a name and so bright a
character, and can at this moment do no more than mingle
our griefs with those of our brethren in all parts of the
United Kingdom at th;s so great a loss ; remembering, how-
ever, amidst our lamentations, the rich legacies of piety and
learning which the venerable deceased has bequeathed to
the Evangelical Nonconformist Church.—The Patriot.

ANOTHER DARING ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER.—Another
daring robbery has been reported to the police of Manches-
ter. The robbery was committed on Monday afternoon, in
the house of Mr. Blackburn, beer-house keeper, 30, Claren-
don-street, corner of Wilmott-street, Hulme. It appears
that on Monday afternoon, Mr. Blackburn, a very respect-
able man, and a bricksetter by trade, was out at his work as
usual. His wife, who has for some time been labouring
under a disease of the leg, which rendered it necessary for
her to become a patient of a doctor at Pendleton, left home
about three o'clock for Pendleton, leaving in charge of the
house her sister, Miss Whittaker, who is between 19 and 20
years of age. It was turned three o'clock when Mrs.
Blackburn left the house, and about half-past three o'clock
the girl gave an alarm in the neighbourhood that two men
had been in the house; that they called for two glasses of
ale ; that while she was in the cellar they fastened the front
door that on her return from the cellar with (the ale, they
took hold of her and tied her with a rope to a table ;
that one of the men stood over her, while the other
went up stairs and broke open a box, but that whether he
has taken anything she could not tell. Information of a
similar character she soon conveyed to the police in Caven-
dish-street. Mr. Superintendent Taylor took down the par-
ticulars, and in answer to a question put by him to Miss
Whittaker, she said that she soon expeethl her sister home.
Shortly afterwards Mrs. Blackburn came to the police-station
in Cavendish-street, and stated that she had been robbed of
a sum of money amounting to between £23 and £24, which
had been taken out of a box that had been wrenched open
by- a piece of a poker used in the house. It appears that
the rope with which the female was tied to the table belong-
ed to the house, and there is a mystery hanging over the
whole case whichl is as yet unexplained, The neighbours
did not see any person of a suspicions character enter the
house, and altogether the alleged robbery seems a very mys-
terious one.