The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

the vessel, whilst

unavailin

so about ten o'clock on Sunday morning

the plugs were withdrawn from the bottom of the iron
hull of the ship, and she was allowed to sink in deep
water, where she was moored, and there she settled
funnel and the

down, leaving only the chimney

iron stanchions for the awnings standing above

the water level. Respecting the origin of the
fire, it is stated that some men were busy below deck
with three lantern% en duty connected with the vessel.

These men perceived an odour of escaping ether, and
were aware of something being wrong. Two of the lights
were promptly extinguished, but the third was upset in
the struggle, and ignited some ether which had (from
some unexplained cause) escaped on the floor. The ship
was at once in flames, as previously described. The screw-
steam-ship La France was built at Marseilles two or three
years since, and was employed as a transport vessel during
the Crimean war. She has just been placed on the line
of Marseilles steamers to Brazils, and was on her first
outward voyage when the unfortunate loss occurred. Just
before the mail steam-ship Avon left Bahia (Oct. 19) the
sunken vessel and contents had been offered at sale by
auction, and the amount realised was something under
£5,000. The vessel was understood to have been insured
at about £50,000.

A FULL QuivEn.—We read in the Western Times :
" The blessing of a full quiver has descended on the house
of the Rev. A. L Mitchell, the worthy pastor of the Free
Church, Southernay. On Tuesday, his good wife presented
him with their seventeenth child—all living."

ROYALTY AT NlCE.—TheNizzardo, a journal of Nice, of
the 5.,h, relate• the following anecdote :—" Yesterday the
Empress of Russia visited the convent of Oimella, where she
was hospitably received by the monks. On leaving her
Majesty found a crowd assembled to salute her, and among
thcm Professor Parini, the sculptor, who had his little
daughter, three years old, with him. On seeing the richly
dressed lady pass near her, the child, a beautiful little

who kindly taking her little hand, rewarded
s." It is believed that the

her bo
period

iciness with many cares,

which King Victor Emmanuel will visit Nice is
about the 25th of this month. He will return to Turin in
December, or the opening of parliament, and then go back
to Nice again. _ _

A DE4PEttATE Wea!AN.—During the last two years
Emma. Chatten, a woman between twenty and thirty years
of age, the wife of a respectable man keeping a coffee-
house at Knightsbridge, has been three times tried at the
Old Bailey for most violent assaults upon him. On the
first occasion she was committed from the Hammersmith
Police Court for attacking him with a pair of tongs while
he was in bed. On the next she was sent for trial from the
Westminster Police Court for stabbing him with a large
eating-house keeper's knife, and beating him unmercifully
with her fists while the blood was streaming from the
wounds she had inflicted ; and on the last occasion she was
again sent before a jury for wounding him severely in the
head with a poker. Through his humane intercession she
escaped punishment altogether on the first occasion, and on
the two last was only visited with short terms of imprison-
ment, the last sentence being for six months, and expiring
next Tuesday. A few days ago Mr. Chatten's sister received
a letter from his wife, from which the following is an
rte career, and greatly to be
in end, for should I be left to
who has sworn at the altar to
e, the wife of his bosom, and mother of his only
--for one or both

extract

feared still, is not yet a

ander the

streets by hira

child, I say our °overture is not at an en
shall die. I was never more s

rious in my life than at the
_
t moment. I hope they will hang and not transport
In consequence of the receipt of this Mr. Chatten
went to the Westminster Police Court on Saturday and
stated that he apprehended serious danger. lie had taken
his wife home from prison on each of the former occasions,
and had offered her a suitable maintenance when released
horn her present confinement. Mr. Pavnter, who re-
membered the circumstances above detailed, felt no
surprise at the husband's alarm. He thought that after
haying been thrice assaulted and wounded most seriously,
he bad good cause to apprehend a repetition of her
' The magistrate then directed Mr. Chatten to

violence

bring his sister, who had receivedihele;.,ter--W. ith—him; on
Monday, when a warrant would be granted him, upon which
his wife could be apprehended when she came out of prison
o a Tuesday.