The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-02 00:00:00

rman was proposed by Mr
and secondedby Mr. Verelst.

The Chairman, in

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edging the compliment,
igation which the society

expressed his sense of the obl
owed to its committee and officer
The proceedings then closed.

LONDON GAZETTE

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BANK RCP TS sam, Hey ford and Rugbrooke ,
Northamptonshire, iron storemaster. LEONARD LAWMAN,
Chancery-lane. and Coborn New-road, Bow, law stationer.
WM. SEAGER WHITE, Handsworth. Staffordshire, chemial
and druggist. WM. IVtaartszs, Haley Mill, near Dartford,
Kent, and St. Paul's Church-yard, City, paper manufac-
turer. JAS. HARRISON, City, commission agent. ROWLAND
HILL BLACKER, Brigate-street,importer of foreign silk goods,
mantle manufacturer and warehouseman. ISAAC nava,
Manchester, victualler, and coffee-house keeper. JOSEPH
NOAKERS, Birmingham, glasscutter. GEO. WAGNER, late
of North Audley-street, and now of Bernard-street, Russell
square, auctioneer and house agent. GEO. TAYLOR, Derby,
silk manufacturer. BAXTER BARKER, York, innkeeper.

THE LATE CATASTROPHE AT KILE.EE.--The Limerick

Chronicle gives the following additional particulars of the

very melancholy casualty which took place at the Puffing-
hole Table Rocks, near Kilkee : The weather on the coast
had been for a few days previous wild and stormy. The
Atlantic surges were impelled against the rugged cliffs to a
height seldom seen by visitors, and the foam of the
angry billows floated in the air, and fell inland
a considerable distance. After church service on

Sunday, the weather brightened up, and the wind had
fallen, but there was a fearful swell on the ocean, and
several persons walked towards the cliffi, to enjoy the
marine prospect for miles at both sides of the bay

and Mrs,. Fisher, Lieutenant-Colonel Hampden Pepper,, of
Lissenisky, Robert Smithwick, Esq , and Miss Smithwick.

the daughter of Peter Smithwick, Esq., of Shanbally, Tip-
perary, formed one of the groups. They agreed to visit
the Puffing Cavern, which the day after a storm usually
throws up a fountain of sea water in the most fantastic

fashion ; and if the sun happens to play on this romantic
spectacle, the successive jets-d' eau exhibit the varied
hues of the rainbow, the ceaseless motion of the tide
below keeping all the attractive features above in full
exercise. The immediate locale of this singular object is
approached by a sliding pathway from the cliff, and then
about a perch of almost level granite rock direct to the
cavern

Lieutenant-colonel Pepper and Miss Smithwick
were in advance, and the former urging the others to move
on, when a coast-guard man on the cliff warned the party
of the danger of venturing out, and Captain Fisher observ-
ing a huge wave rolling in called out to Lieutenant-colonel
Pepper to mind himself, when the sea broke on the rock
with a thundering crash, saturating Captain and Mrs.
Fisher, and completely overpowering Lieutenant-colonel
Pepper and Miss Smithwick, who were both dragged
together by the receding swell into the shaft of the Puffing-
hole and there disappeared, to the horror Itnd amazement
of those persons who, were providentially saved from a
similar fate, though dripping wet and exhausted by the
violent shock. The alarm of this tragic event was promptly
given ; the police, fishermen, and coastguards hastened to
the fearful scene, bat no human being dare approach the
brink -of the Puffing-hole, which had just engulfed two
victims in the prime of life, and probably mutilated their
bodies in a short time by the Maelstrom action of the

maddening waters in the Massive cauldron within. The
remains of the unfortunate lady and gentleman have not
since been found. Part of an overcoat that Lieutenant
Colonel Pepper wore, and the sleeve of Miss Smithwick's
dress were cast ashore in the vicinity of this awful catas-
trophe. Lieutenant-colonel Pepper had a large sum of
money on his person when he fella prey to the merciless
element. lie served for years in the India Company's
Bengal army, and returned to his native country not long
since. The lamented lady was grand-daughter of the late
Rev. Robert Gabbett, D.D., and we are informed by mutual

, friends that arrangements were in progress for their matri-
monial union, when this terrible calamity occurred. How
true is it that man proposes and God disposes ! The sur-
vivors have returned to Lissenisky-house, near Nenagh, the
seat of Theobald Pepper, Esq., brother of the unfortunate
officer.